Nuan Bärnreuther

Talking about sexualized violence is not easy.

I work on the topic of sexualized violence from different perspectives: Discrimination complexes (sexism, queerphobia, racism, intersectional approaches..), interpersonal power and violence relations or systems of oppression, police, punishment and prison critique, abolitionism, trauma, coping with experiences of violence and survivors empowerment.

The goal of my educational work is to understand sexualized violence in its structural dimension and to explore approaches to change: How can internalized mechanisms of rape culture be reflected and unlearned?

The approaches of transformative justice and community accountability inspire my work.

I give lectures and workshops and offer process facilitation for organizations and groups who want to take collective responsibility/accountability in cases of sexualized violence or who wants to involve in this field collectively in order to design their structures in a violence-preventive way.