Creating Stories for Gender Justice: A Narrative and Culture Change Strategy to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence

Why is narrative and culture change important for gender-based violence prevention, especially in the current landscape? Cultural norms shape our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, and influence our sense of what’s acceptable and not acceptable within a community or society at large. Changing culture requires working with multiple sectors and culture makers to develop stories that reflects the reality we seek. Join us for this web conference with the Center for Cultural Power and Story at Scale to discuss a new cultural strategy to advance gender justice using intersectional research and storytelling that centers marginalized voices.

OBJECTIVES

• Identify the importance of a narrative and cultural strategy for sexual and domestic violence prevention
• Describe research on audience groups and their core values.
• Examine how advocates are using narrative and cultural strategy to advance gender justice
• Engage in a discussion on what stories could support sexual and domestic violence prevention work.

HOSTS: Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez & Tori VandeLinde, PreventConnect and CALCASA

FACILITATORS: Alisha Somji & Abena Asare, Prevention Institute

MATERIALS:

• Resources from Story at Scale [PDF]
• Text chat transcript [PDF]

GUEST ORGANIZATIONS:

• Center for Cultural Power
• Story at Scale

One response to “Creating Stories for Gender Justice: A Narrative and Culture Change Strategy to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence”

1. Thank you for this very informative presentation. I learned a lot from you.