Imperial War Museum - Unsilenced an Exhibition on Sexual Violence in Conflict

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If anyone is in London and has the stomach for it

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/reviews/unsilenced-sexual-violence-in-conflict-iwm-london-review/

https://archive.ph/ij6lL

I visited the IWM last time i was in the capital. I admit though, I'm not sure I could face this.

I'm going in September

Thanks for flagging this up, I'm going to London tomorrow for two weeks and I'll try and get to this.

Important for a major institution to do this, even if belatedly, and I hope it's well attended, but I would find seeing it difficult. Historians and archivists are (again, belatedly) paying attention to sexual violence in the Irish war of independence and the civil war, which is a good thing, but because of my own history, I found even seeing a few minutes of a very good documentary that dealt with this stayed with me in unpleasant ways for years.

I'm glad that they've got this exhibition on and that it seems to have been very well curated. Some of the stuff mentioned in the write up are horrific; the bayonet. That was also witnessed at Nova on 7th Oct. I didn't know about the sexual violence in Ireland. If I'd given it one second of thought though. Of course it happened. It always happens.

There's a book, the title is something like Our Bodies, Their Battlegrounds. Much like this exhibition I don't want to see it/read it. I don't want to hate men and it's always men. Even if the victims are men, the perpetrators are always men.

I've purchased the book you mentioned. I'm just waiting for the right time to read it.

Christina Lamb - foreign correspondent at the Times has been reporting on sexual violence against women in conflict for decades and I believe contributed to this. A wonderful journalist. Share token for her most recent article about this :

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/art/article/woman-at-war-the-dark-side-vn5rcmd3d

I'd rather not see this. Too painful as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.