Ione Wells: How we talk about sexual assault online
艾奥·威尔斯: 如何在网上讨论性侵行为
University student Ione Wells is the founder of the international #NotGuilty campaign against sexual violence and misdirected victim blaming. Full bio
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for a couple of weeks;
as we were all reunited.
back to the other side of London.
赶回了伦敦的另一头。
approached out of nowhere
what was happening,
so that I could not breathe,
使我无法呼吸,
dragged me to the ground,
against the pavement
and telling me to "shut up,"
to the concrete ground,
that still haunts me today:
笼罩着我的问题:
I'd been followed the whole way
in front of the police,
on my naked body photographed
the all-consuming feelings
描述出当时我绝望的感受,
and injustice that I was ridden with
to condense these feelings
能把这些感觉集中转化为
that I could work through,
felt most natural to me:
of the very community
abused that night.
effect of his actions,
of the people in your life?
in your life are.
who served everyone coffee
these relations to me
every single one of them.
will never cease to fight for,
good people in the world than bad."
this one incident make me lose faith
我决定不让这次意外使我失去
or humanity as a whole,
in July 2005 on London transport,
的伦敦恐袭爆炸案,
and indeed my own parents,
on the tubes the next day,
walking home after dark.
不会觉得走夜路回家不安全,
or submit to the idea
in danger in doing so.
to come together, like an army,
of our community is threatened.
on the local student paper there.
有亲朋好友的支持,
friends and family supporting me,
who'd been through this before;
我知道性侵有多么常见,
and knew how common sexual assault was,
a single person
about an experience of this kind before.
my letter in the student paper,
and be feeling the same way.
with their experiences
could express themselves
表达她们的看法,
about what happened to them --
stand up to sexual assault.
is that almost overnight,
hundreds of stories
on a website I set up.
自己建立的网站上,
who described how on an evening out,
向我描述她是如何在一天晚上,
to repeatedly grab her crotch.
on a visit to London
约会时被对方强暴,
没有一个人把他的话当真。
by anyone he reported his case to.
from people in India and South America,
在Facebook上私信我,
the message of the campaign there?
到那里?
was from a woman called [Nikki],
being molested my her own father.
被自己的生父骚扰。
from those that happened last week
从发生在几周前,
that I'd had no idea about.
而我却对此一无所知。
to receive these messages,
to receive messages of hope --
by this community of voices
保护受害者的声音,
and victim-blaming.
and cared about for a long time,
of the stories posted here,
women can move forward,
as them someday.
tweeting under this hashtag,
参与这个话题标签,
and covered by the national press,
全国的新闻界也有所报道
other languages worldwide.
about the media attention
or something surprising.
is not something new.
kinds of injustices,
as not just news stories,
that had affected real people,
with the solidarity of others,
and had previously lacked:
or to blame for what happened to them
或是责怪这种行为,
to reduce stigma around the issue.
were at the forefront of the story --
or commentators on social media.
interconnected world
for igniting social change.
提供了宝贵资源,
increasingly reactive,
of, "Oh, my train's been delayed,"
genocides, terrorist attacks.
恐怖袭击所带来的不公,
to leap to react to any kind of grievance
that we, too, have reacted.
作出反应的方式。
in this manner en masse
的问题是,
that we don't actually react at all,
doing anything, anyway.
to a group mourning or outrage,
团队中的一份子,
affected by the injustice,
for some reactions to injustice
有些应对不公的行为
with the hope of providing easy solutions
希望这样就能为这些复杂的问题
on the publication of my letter,
Online Campaign to Shame Attacker."
meant to shame anyone.
and to make others listen.
并让其他人倾听,
to create even more injustice,
创造出更多不公正,
my attacker's ethnicity or class
of feigning the whole thing
"Hey guys! Sorry I can't make it,
我去不了了,
the entire male population
the things the say in person.
肯定不会这样说,
be behind a screen,
they're doing is a public act --
and be affected by it.
并因此受到影响。
of getting back on our trains,
about this noise that escalates
into portraying us as the affected party,
any opportunity for positivity or change
before the campaign started
to Nelson Mandela.
she told really struck me.
Mandela was taken to court
进行调查之后,
an inquiry into sports affairs.
Rugby Union's lawyers,
each in their own language.
to determine the grounds for battle."
they were so important,
down in a notebook I had on me.
所以把它们记到了本子上
a lot ever since.
in the face of wrong,
所产生的直觉,
negative events of injustice
determine the grounds for battle,
become the affected,
for interconnectivity and community
a social media response,
of the #NotGuilty campaign
a more considered approach
to respond to injustice.
is to ask ourselves two things.
我们应该自问两个问题。
several answers to this.
这个问题的答案有好几个。
wouldn't have to be held to account
of men and women suffer every day
成千上万的男女都遭受着性侵,
the same airtime to as other issues.
比其他事件少。
blame victims for.
in recognizing these reasons,
“当你认识到这些原因了,
to account -- and many others.
是让我的施暴者承担起责任。
on the effect they had caused.
to the issue of sexual assault,
amongst families, in the media
shouldn't feel to blame
in solving this problem entirely.
as an active tool for social justice,
当成有效的工具,
to stimulate dialogues,
鼓励对话,
of authority aware of an issue
directly affected by it.
don't have easy answers.
can't give them a considered response.
you can't go about thinking
this feeling of injustice,
maybe not what you can do,
by fighting injustice with more prejudice,
directly affected by an injustice.
第二天忘掉这件事,
only to forget about it the next day,
of Twitter has moved on.
instantly is, ironically,
of action we can take.
and energized by injustice,
without descending into a culture
但同时不让我们的社会
and injustice ourselves.
to think before we speak,
have a screen in front of us.
of those affected,
where you're not the exception
that has actually happened to you.
approaches to injustice
on which the internet was built:
bringing people together,
"justice" in the dictionary,
or judicial authority,
more "right" in this world
to deliver that,
form of justice, indeed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ione Wells - Writer, activistUniversity student Ione Wells is the founder of the international #NotGuilty campaign against sexual violence and misdirected victim blaming.
Why you should listen
Ione Wells is a student at the University of Oxford in the UK, where she just started her third year reading for a degree in English Language and Literature, and a keen writer and journalist.
After being the victim of an assault in London in early 2015, she published a letter to her assaulter in a student newspaper, which went viral, attracting enormous attention and prompting the sharing of countless experiences by others around the world on social media.
That reaction prompted her to set up the international #NotGuilty campaign against sexual violence and misdirected victim-blaming, which has a website providing a platform for people to speak out. Since then, she has written about these issues for multiple publications, commented on radio and television, spoken at several festivals, hosted support groups and workshops for survivors of assault, and led workshops in schools.
She is the former editor of Oxford University’s student magazine, The Isis, and has an active interest in human rights, international relations, theatre, and wild swimming.
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