El Monumento de Historias

El Monumento de Historias, un proyecto de FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, con sede en Baltimore, es una colección de más de 3000 historias de sobrevivientes de violencia sexual y doméstica y nuestrxs aliadxs. Escritas, pintadas y cosidas en tela roja, nuestras historias cubren, literalmente, espacios públicos al aire libre para crear y exigir espacios para sanar y resistir la narrativa simplista sobre la violencia sexual. La exhibición 50 y final se llevará a cabo del 31 de mayo al 2 de junio de 2019 en el National Mall de Washington, DC. Ésta será la única vez que el Monumento de Historias se podrá ver completo.

El proyecto ha tenido cobertura nacional en los Estados Unidos a través de MSNBC y Refinery 29, incluyendo nuestras acciones artísticas en Standing Rock y con Marissa Alexander. Continuamos teniendo cobertura local durante los talleres y eventos del Monumento de Historias que son organizados por nuestrxs aliadxs, como en este artículo Alton Telegraph. El video de nuestra gira de 2014 puede verse aquí y el de la exhibición en nuestra ciudad Baltimore, aquí.

El equipo de FORCE es quien crea la visión del Monumento de Historias y está guiado por nuestro Equipo de Líderes. Actualmente el equipo está formado por Shanti Flagg, Charnell Covert, E Cadoux, Mora Fernández y Hannah Brancato. Ex miembros del equipo incluyen a Saida Agostini, Robin Marquis y Rebecca Nagle. En 2013, El Monumento de Historias fue co-fundado por Hannah Brancato y Rebecca Nagle. 

El Monumento de Historias se lanzó en 2013 y, en los últimos cinco años, FORCE ha recopilado más de 3000 historias con mensajes e historias de sobrevivientes. Nos hemos aliado con más de 100 organizaciones en los Estados Unidos y México para organizar 49 exhibiciones en 33 ciudades, de la más reciente a la más antigua:  Baltimore, MD; Madison, NJ; Houston, TX; Athens, OH; Fort Belvoir, VA; Towson, MD; Mexico City, Mexico; San Francisco, CA; El Paso, TX; Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Santa Barbara, CA; Valley Center, CA; Tempe, AZ; Tulsa, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Annapolis, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Middleton, CT; Queens, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; White River, SD; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Arden, NC.

Asociaciones aliadas que organizaron estas exhibiciones:

  • Drew University Title IX Office
  • JHU Center for Health and Wellness, SARU, LGBTQ Life at JHU, and Women and Gender Resources
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County Women’s Center
  • Rothko Chapel
  • Ohio University Women’s Center, Ohio University Multicultural CenterOhio University LGBT Center and many more departments
  • Rita Church Community Center
  • Fort Belvoir SHARP Resource Center and AFSC SHARP
  • Case Western University
  • Towson University Center for Student Diversity
  • San Francisco City College Women’s Studies/Project SURVIVE, Physical Education Department and Student Health Services
  • La Casa Mandarina AC, Bordamos Por la Paz, UTEP – Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Center Against Sexual and Family Violence; Violence Intervention Program, Inc., Mujeres en Movimiento, Make the Road NY, Feminismo Consciente and Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ)
  • Queens Museum, Immigrant Movement International
  • La Jolla Band, San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians
  • Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition, American Indian Graduate Student Association, Cocopah Tribe, and Arizona State University
  • Muscogee (Creek) Nation Family Violence Prevention
  • Take Back the Night University of California Santa Barbara
  • Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia- ENAH (National School of Anthropology and History)
  • Hospital Psiquiátrico Infantil Juan N. Navarro (Children’s Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Juan N. Navarro)
  • The Armed Forces’ Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Program
  • Colgate University
  • NMAI – National Museum of the American Indian
  • Fort Meade SHARPP Program
  • Station North Arts and Entertainment, Inc, Motor House, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation, Strong CityBaltimore, TurnAround, Inc, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Baltimore, AAUW Younger Women’s Task Force, Hollaback! Baltimore, Free State Legal, the Family Arts Museum, and Baltimore Collegetown Network,  SART Baltimore Community Partners, Baltimore City Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice, American Visionary Art Museum, Phynyx Ministries, Salem Lutheran, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB)
  • National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Indian Law Resource Center
  • TN Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and Nashville Sexual Assault Center
  • Escuela Primaria Instituto Siglo XXI (Elementary School Institue Century XXI)
  • Ultraviolet
  • Oklahoma Native Alliance Against Violence
  • Free Marissa Now
  • Students at Wesleyan University and Wesleyan Feminist Underground
  • Carnegie Mellon University Student Life Office, Hollaback! Pittsburg, New Voices Pittsburg, National Sexual Assault Conference, National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Stop Sexual Assault in the Military, United Steelworkers Women of Steel, Wheeling Vet Center and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Pittsburgh Center of Race & Gender Equity
  • Rape Victims Advocates, Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Project NIA, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Young Girls & Young Women, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Project&, Jane M. Saks, Chicago Women’s Health Center, Affinity Community Health Services, R.A.C.E.S
  • North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Orange County Rape Crisis Center (OCRCC), Shaw University Counseling Center, Kiran Inc., REACH of Macon County, Durham Crisis Response Center, North Carolina Central University Women’s Center and Johnson C. Smith University
  • University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Women’s Center and REACH Counseling
  • White Buffalo Calf Women Society, Tokala Inajinyo Suicide Prevention Mentoring Program, Defending Childhood Initiative (DCI), Domestic Violence Program Initiative, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
  • LEAD Agency and Quapaw’s Tribe Domestic Violence Program
  • Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa, Latinas Unidas por un Nuevo Amanecer (LUNA), Deaf Iowans Against Abuse (DIAA), Meskwaki, WOCAN (Women of Color Advisory Network) is part of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, People of Color Queer Allies Trans, Nisaa African Women’s Project
  • Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) and LSU Women’s Center
  • Crisis Center, INC Birmingham
  • Alternate Roots
  • Spiritual Empowerment Center, Baltimore