Training: Part 2 Advocacy-focused responses to those using resistive violence in the face of oppression | ShantiWorks

People are never passive in their resistance to oppression.
However, acts of protection, of survival and resistance are often incorrectly and unjustly interpreted as aggression or violence. Victims/survivors of family violence, particularly those who have been marginalised, are often labelled as violent for resisting oppression and abuse, or for defending their lives, their dignity and their children.
Misidentification is an ongoing systemic injustice – when we respond to victims/survivors as perpetrators, and perpetrators as victims of abuse.
In this workshop we want to critically reflect on our assumptions about domestic violence, coercive control and social entrapment. It is critical that we continue to educate ourselves on victims’/survivors’ use of resistive violence, the context of the use of legal and illegal force, and to learn and challenge assumptions and responses that disproportionately harm victims/survivors of intimate partner violence, (particularly women of colour, migrant and refugee women, and Aboriginal and First Nations women).
This workshop will unpack the concept of resistive violence and consider strategies that victims/survivors use as a response to perpetrators’ coercive tactics. Making resistive strategies visible is political praxis: it is a way of contextualising intimate partner violence and survival responses to living in an intimate oppressive regime.

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