Open Process Series: Manufactured Manipulation
Amal Kouttab facilitates an examination of the crossroads between media, pop culture and sexual violence. Participants will learn to frame issues of sexual violence within the context of larger cultural institutions and critically examine how various forms of oppression intersect to create and sustain a “rape culture.” This interactive presentation by San Francisco Women Against Rape is ideal for educators and anyone looking for tools to have creative dialogue about these issues.
San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, we believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution.
Amal Kouttab
is a registered drama therapist, teacher, mediator, and filmmaker. She has used drama, art and writing to facilitate therapeutic groups in mental health settings, nursing homes, hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in the performing arts and women’s studies from the University of Virginia in 1997, and a master’s degree in psychology and drama therapy from New York University in 2001. For the past four years, she has facilitated therapeutic workshops with Palestinians and Israelis and other groups in conflict in the Middle East and the Bay Area. She has taught graduate
psychology classes entitled Drama Therapy for Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she developed part of the curriculum focused on internalized oppression. She co-founded the Araceli Theater Project based at San Francisco General Hospital, which rehearses and performs original educational theater pieces for people with cancer.
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