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"Emerging And Submerging": Silence, Commemoration, And Sexual Violence In Minneapolis, Alissa Roy
"Emerging And Submerging": Silence, Commemoration, And Sexual Violence In Minneapolis, Alissa Roy
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Dedicated in Minneapolis in October 2020, the Survivors Memorial became the first permanent memorial to survivors of sexual violence in the United States. However, as my research reveals, sexual violence has long been a part of the commemorative landscape in northeast Minneapolis. Whereas the Survivors Memorial explicitly commemorates survivors of sexual violence, a much older site, the 1936 Pioneers Monument - commemorates sexual violence through silence. This thesis argues that with the building and dedication of the Survivors Memorial, a different memory than the one embodied within the Pioneers Monument begins to take shape. An older narrative of peaceful conquest …