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Journal article
Commemorating a rape: Mary’s Place 1997 and 2010
Outskirts, Vol.38, pp.1-17
2018
Abstract
In January 1996, a young, lesbian woman named Mary was verbally abused and physically and sexually assaulted in a laneway in Surry Hills, an inner suburb of Sydney. The homophobic hate crime became the catalyst for a place-based art project that reclaimed the laneway for Sydney’s LGBTIQ community. Just over a decade later, the original commemoration was replaced by a high profile public artwork. This paper offers a comparison of these two place-based commemorations. Although only a relatively short period separates them, the social context is radically different, as is the response to the hate crime. Whereas the first Mary’s Place artwork focused on the LGBTIQ experience of violence, the 2010 commemoration emphasized Mary’s femaleness. By exploring the similarities and differences of the two responses, this paper explores changes over time in social responses to LGBTIQ people, and the power of language in responses to violence.
Details
- Title
- Commemorating a rape: Mary’s Place 1997 and 2010
- Authors/Creators
- Alison Atkinson-Phillips
- Publication Details
- Outskirts, Vol.38, pp.1-17
- Publisher
- The University of Western Australia, Centre for Women's Studies
- Identifiers
- 991005618226207891
- Copyright
- © 2018 the Author(s)
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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