By Sorouja Moll
The objective of Jane Doe: Counter Memory Against the Silence project explores, across iterations, how unidentified women and girls (who are identified as “Jane Doe”) are remembered and acknowledged using media activism (Stillman, 2007), rememory (Morrison, 1987), and spatiotemporal translingualism in liminal spaces (Canagarajah, 2018; Schneider 2011, 2017, 2018). The battle between remembering and forgetting is located in the discursive anonymity of “Jane Doe,” a bureaucratic pseudonym which is often entrenched in violence, fear, and shame, and thus individual stories are disavowed and rendered insignificant. The aim of this work is to vitalize disenfranchised beings in the public imagination by activating epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies of lived lives and refusing social memorylessness and gender-based violence by opening portals for a gathering of remembrance, a meeting place for meditation, and
a knowing that is invested in change.
Dr. Sorouja Moll
Jane Doe: A Counter Memory Against the Silence
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