Sexual Citizens Author Talk

Join us Wednesday, September 30, 5:30-7 PM, at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena for an in-person hosted virtual talk with the authors of Sexual Citizens. Published in 2020, this acclaimed book is the culmination of the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a college campus to date.

Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life, and what can be done to prevent it?

Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study to date of sexual assault on a campus, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots, based on the powerful concepts of “sexual projects,” “sexual citizenship,” and…