“I remember being told like if I refuse to answer a question, or I don’t answer a question, I could be charged as noncooperative, and so it’s kind of this realization that in this fight for my right to consent and boundaries, I don’t have a right to consent and boundaries,” Liss added in an interview with the Voice after the event. She first brought the case to court, but said that “the punitive process recreated a lot of the powerlessness experienced in trauma.” Liss also spoke on the April 3 episode of the SAPE speaks podcast.ĭuring the restorative justice event on April 12, Liss spoke about her experience being sexually assaulted as a college student. The two events, titled “Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm: Why I Fought for a Circle, Not a Courtroom” and “The Sex Ed We Need: Consent, LGBTQ+ Inclusion & Pleasure,” were organized by Georgetown’s Sexual Assault Peer Educators (SAPE) for its Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) programming. Marlee Liss, award-winning speaker and author of Re-Humanize, held discussions with Georgetown students about alternative resolutions to sexual assault cases and heteronormativity in sexual education on April 12 and 13. Content warning: this article contains references to sexual assault.
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