In 2018, Meredith Minister, professor of Religious and Gender Studies at Shenandoah University, reached out to me. She had read about Rotatio in one of the press articles and requested to use an image of the piece as the cover for a book she was writing on rape culture on campuses with Lexington Press. I was thrilled and honored to share my work with the inspirational academic guide she wrote to help the world understand the complexities behind our culture that excuses and condones rape.

“Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.”

You can find out more and purchase the book at Rowman & Littlefield (or Amazon).