Unsticking Shame: Considering Lived Experience and Processes of Overcoming
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Taking the Braving Body Shame conference, which featured women discussing their experiences with shame, as a case study, this paper addresses what women do with their affective experiences. The paper examines videos from the Braving Body Shame conference to discuss how participants frame shame as a generative, recursive process of overcoming that stems from a recognition of their subjectivity. This paper offers one way of complicating our scholarly understanding of shame to avoid the flattening of affect and highlights the manifold ways individuals cope and seek empowerment within oppressive systems
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Hannah Taylor
Dr. Hannah Taylor is a Lecturer for the Thompson Writing Program. Her research is focused on reproductive rhetoric, rhetoric of health and medicine, and digital rhetoric. Her work has been published in Peitho, College English, and Composition Forum.
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