Il y a cinq mois, le verdict du procès en diffamation entre Johnny Depp et Amber Heard a profondément inquiété plusieurs professionnel-les du domaine de la violence entre partenaires intimes et de la violence sexuelle.
Comme beaucoup de personnes l’ont noté, dont l’éditorialiste A.O. Scott du New York Times, la diffamation de Mme Heard et le harcèlement en ligne dont elle et celleux qui l’ont soutenue ont fait l’objet s’avèrent sans précédent, tant par leur vitriol que par leur ampleur.
Une grande partie de ce harcèlement a été alimentée par la désinformation, la misogynie, la biphobie et un environnement de médias sociaux monétisés où les allégations de violence conjugale et d’agression sexuelle d’une femme sont tournées en dérision à des fins de divertissement. Les mêmes tropes de désinformation et de blâme des victimes sont maintenant utilisés contre d’autres personnes ayant allégué des agressions.
Selon nous, le verdict de l’affaire Depp contre Heard et le discours qui continue à l’entourer témoignent d’une incompréhension fondamentale de la violence sexuelle et des agressions de partenaires intimes et de la façon dont les survivantes y réagissent. Les conséquences néfastes de la diffusion de cette désinformation sont incalculables. Nous sommes très préoccupé-es par l’utilisation abusive croissante des procès en diffamation pour menacer et réduire au silence les survivantes.
Nous condamnons l’humiliation publique d’Amber Heard et lui apportons notre soutien. Nous soutenons la capacité de toustes à signaler les violences sexuelles et celles commises par les partenaires intimes, sans devoir subir de harcèlement ni d’intimidation.
Organisations signataires
Women’s March Action
Fondation de la Marche des femmes
Ms. Magazine
Esperanza United
The National Organization for Women
The Asian Feminist
LIFT : Living in Freedom Together, Worcester
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)
The Safe Center LI
Sakhi for South Asian Women
The National Organization for Women, chapitre de Virginie
Refuge : For women and children against domestic violence
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Center for Safety and ChangeClearinghouse on Women’s Issues (CWI)
Democratic Activists for Women Now
Sanctuary for Families
National Women’s Law Center
Equal Rights Advocates
Equality Now
EnoughIsEnough Voter Project
Engendered Collective
Every Voice Coalition Fighting Sexual Violence on Campus
Know Your IX
Victim Focus
Sisi.ie
Aidileys
Crumiller
Ultraviolet
Female Filmaker Fuse
Sexual Violence Prevention Association
Military Rape Crisis Center
Öfgar
The Pixel Project
Hope’s Door
Futures Without Violence
Réseau International des Mères en Lutte
WeSpoke
Women’s Equal Justice Project
CCChat Magazine
Custody Peace
Violence Free Minnesota
The Mary Sue New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
Osez le Féminisme
Movement of Mothers
Associazione Iroko Onlus
C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, Victims’ Rights Law Firm
Feminist Majority Foundation
Fearless! Hudson Valley, Inc.
McAllister Olivarius
Aidileys • Associazione Iroko Onlus • Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) • CCChat Magazine • Custody Peace • Cyber Civil Rights Initiative • Center for Safety and Change • Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues Crumiller • The Feminist Litigation Firm • Democratic Activists for Women Now • Engendered Collective • EnoughIsEnough Voter Project • Equal Rights Advocates • Equality Now • Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network) • Every Voice Coalition • Fearless! Hudson Valley, Inc. • Female Filmaker Fuse • Feminist Majority Foundation • Futures Without Violence • C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, Victims’ Rights Law Firm • Hope’s Door • Know Your IX • LIFT: Living in Freedom Together, Worcester • McAllister Olivarius • Military Rape Crisis Center • Ms. Magazine •The National Organization for Women • The National Organization for Women: Virginia Chapter • National Women’s Law Center • Öfgar • Osez le Féminisme • Refuge: for Women & Children. Against Domestic Violence. • Réseau International des Mères en Lutte • Sakhi for South Asian Women • Sanctuary for Families • Sexual Violence Prevention Association • The Asian Feminist • The Mary Sue • Movement of Mothers • The Pixel Project • The Safe Center LI • UltraViolet • Victim Focus • Violence Free Minnesota • WeSpoke • Women’s March Action • Women’s March Foundation • Women’s Equal Justice Project
Signataires individuel-les:
Renée B. Adams,
Professor, University of Oxford
Dr. Esohe Aghatise,
Executive Director, Associazione Iroko Onlus
Cheryl A. Alexander,
L.I.C.S.W., RMT Trauma Informed Psychotherapist in Private Practice
Aisha Ali-Khan,
British Women’s Rights Campaigner, Women United Organisation
Sara Ahmed,
Independent Scholar, Author, “Complaint!”
Kate Amber,
PgCert, Founder, End Coercive Control USA
Dr. Adrienne Barnett,
Reader in Law, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London
Dr. Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur,
Professor of Sociology, Rhode Island College
Kelly Asao,
Professor of Psychology, Westminster College
Dr. Kate Balestrieri,
Licensed Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Certified Sex Therapist & Founder of Modern Intimacy
Dr. Nicole Bedera,
Sociologist
Nicole Bell,
Founder and CEO, LIFT Living in Freedom Together
Panayiota Bertzikis,
CEO/Founder Military Rape Crisis Center
Amy Betts,
Founder of Aidileys – Rights, Family Court Information Services
Elizabeth Blackney,
Survivor and Activist
Antoinette Bonsignore, J.D.,
Legal and Prosecutorial Analyst, Case Systems Training Review Program, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission
Anna Boucher,
Associate Professor in Public Policy and Political Science (LSE) and admitted Solicitor, Supreme Court NSW, Australia
Lindsey Boylan,
Women’s Rights Activist
Dr. Stephanie Ann Brandt MD,
Faculty and Chairman, Ethics Committee, New York Psychoanalytic Institute New York, NY, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, Experienced Forensic Evaluation and Testimony in Family, Supreme and Federal ( EDNY + SDNY ) Child focused Litigation
Susan J. Brison,
Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Dartmouth College
Professor Ann Bartow,
University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Laura S Brown, Ph.D.
ABPP, psychologist in private practice, past President, APA Division of Trauma Psychology and Society for The Psychology of Women
Dr. Kari Brozowski
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Twiss Butler,
Feminist
Rachel Camp,
Professor from Practice and Co-Director, Georgetown University Domestic Violence Clinic (title for identification purposes only)
Nancy Chi Cantalupo,
Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School (title and institution provided for identification purposes only)
Kali Casab,
The Voices and Faces Project
Lauren B. Cattaneo,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, George Mason University
Gillian Chadwick,
Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law
Debra Chopp,
Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Seo-Young Chu
Associate Professor Queens College, CUNY
Andrew Thomas Cicchetti,
Ph.D. LCSW-R
Dr Esma Esen Çiftçi,
Assistant Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology at Anadolu University. Work on Sexism and Social Relationships
Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola,
DSW, LCSW Coercive Control Advocate, Educator, Researcher & Survivor
J.V. Connors
Ph.D. New Mexico licensed psychologist
Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno,
SHERA Research Group
Roxana Dapper,
Activist Educator, Feminist, Gender Equity Educator
Michele Landis Dauber,
Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Stanford Law School (title and institution for identification purposes only)
Ella Dawson,
Author
Drew Dixon,
Producer, Activist
Margaret B. Drew,
Associate Professor of Law, UMass Law School
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Drobac
Martin Dufresne, translator of Andrea Dworkin and Lundy Bancroft
Danielle Pelfrey Duryea
Boston University School of Law (institution for identification purposes only)
Maria João Faustino,
PhD Candidate, University of Auckland
Erin Dwyer-Frazier,
Attorney and Domestic Violence Advocate
Heidi Eilers, Ph.D.,
BCBA-D, CCTP, Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy,
Egyptian internet activist and women’s rights advocate
Deborah Epstein,
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Gender, Violence, and Law, Georgetown Law University Center
Ray Epstein,
President/Founder of Student Activists Against Sexual Assault at Temple University
Heidi Li Feldman,
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Bill Flack,
Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University
Professor Michael Flood
Queensland University of Technology
Terry Forliti,
Communication Coordinator for Upside Sex Trafficking Initiative, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jaclyn Friedman,
editor of “Yes Means Yes” and “Believe Me”
Kern Geard,
Social Worker, Feminist Advocate
Professor Aisha K. Gill, Ph.D.
CBE | Professor of Criminology
Professor Leigh Gilmore,
Ohio State University, Author, “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women”
Lisa Goodman,
Ph.D., Professor, Boston College
Leigh Goodmark,
Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Co-Director, Clinical Law Program
Cynthia A. Graham,
PhD, C. Psychol, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health
Gretchen Grappone,
LICSW PTSD Clinician & Trainer
Julie Green,
Research Assistant, Violence Against Women and Children team, Department of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
Min Grob,
Founder CCChat Magazine
Kit Gruelle,
Advocate, Survivor, Film Subject for HBO Documentary Private Violence
Emiliana Guereca,
Founder and Executive Director Women’s March Action and Women’s March Foundation
Kayla Harder
Founder, Survivors Righting Wrongs
Yasmeen Hassan,
Global Executive Director, Equality Now
Tirion Havard,
Associate Professor, England UK
Judith L. Herman, M.D.,
Professor of Psychiatry (Part Time), Harvard Medical School
Kathryn Holland,
Ph.D Assistant Professor of Psychology & Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Nebraska
CarlLa Horton, M.P.A.,
Executive Director, Hope’s Door
Emily Mia Hughes-Smith,
MBACP. BSc(hons) dip. Sup
Doreen Hunter,
Co-Founder, Americas Conference to End Coercive Control (ACECC)
Holly Jacobs, PhD
Founder, Board Member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Hans Johnson,
President, East Area Progressive Democrats
Sheherezade Kara
International Human Rights Jurist and Consultant, human-writes.org
Dr. Emma Katz, Ph.D.,
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Mara Keire
Senior Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Margaret Kertesz,
Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Farrah Khan,
CEO Possibility Seeds
Amanda Kippert,
Editor-in-Chief, DomesticShelters.org, Co-Host, Toxic the Podcast
Judge Judy Harris Kluger,
Executive Director, Sanctuary for Families
Renée Izambard,
Survivor, Founding member of Movement of Mothers
Dean Laurie Kohn,
George Washington Law School
Kellyann Kostyal-Larrier,
Executive Director, Fearless! Hudson Valley, Inc.
Dr. Ingeborg Kraus,
Clinical Psychologist, Psychotraumatologist
Lauren Krouse,
Writer & Survivor-Victim Advocate
Afsana Lachaux,
Activist & British Women’s Rights Campaigner.
Julie S. Lalonde
Canadian Woman’s Rights Advocate
Dr Rhiannon Lane,
Research Fellow in Sociology, Cardiff University
Julianna Lee,
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Geraldine Lee-Treweek ,
Professor of Social Justice at Birmingham City University, UK, specialist in Abuse Studies and Psychotherapist.
Dorchen A. Leidholdt, Esq.,
Director, Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families
Edward Lloyd,
Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor Emeritus in Environmental Law, Columbia University School of Law
Dr. Laura E. Ludtke,
Independent Scholar
Linda MacDonald,
Persons Against Non-State Torture, co-author « Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win »
Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law, and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (all titles for identification purposes only)
David Mandel,
Executive Director, Safe and Together Institute
Jane Manning,
Director, Women’s Equal Justice Project
Omny Miranda Martone,
Founder & CEO of Sexual Violence Prevention Association
Irina Matvienko,
Feminist Activist, Journalist, Founder of Nemolchi.uz (Do Not Be Silent)
Jef McAllister,
Managing Partner, McAllister Olivarius
Joan Meier,
National Family Violence Law Center, Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School
Neeta Misra,
Director of Development, Per Scholas
Carolyn Modeen,
Sun Cities West Valley NOW
Amy Myers,
Acting Director, Gender Justice Clinic, Washington College of Law (for identification purposes only)
Natalie Nanasi,
Associate Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Director, Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women
Laura Beth Nielsen, JD, Ph.D.,
Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, President, Law and Society Association, Author, “License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech” (titles for identification purposes only)
Ann Olivarius,
Chair of the Executive Committee, McAllister Olivarius
Emer O’Toole, Ph.D.,
Professor, Concordia University
Tashmia Owen,
Survivor Advocate, Artist & Feminist Filmmaker
Natalie Page
TheCourtSaid Founder, Survivor Family Network Director
David Palumbo-Liu,
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
Reena Parikh,
Director of Civil Rights Clinic, Boston College Law School (title for identification purposes only)
Moira Penza,
Attorney, Former federal prosecutor, Eastern District of New York; led NXIVM investigation and trial
Jaime Cabeza Pereiro,
Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, University of Vigo
Mary Peterson,
PhD candidate & Activist Specialising in Fighting Sexual Harassment in Academia
Alison Phipps,
Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University
Christie Pitts
Alexa Polar,
Writer, Producer, Director & Founder of Female Filmakers Fuse
Nicole Prause, Ph.D.,
Senior Statistician, University of California, Los Angeles (title for identification purposes only)
Dr. Charlotte Proudman,
Barrister and Academic
Dr Shivaun Quinlivan
Associate Professor, University of Galway
Professor Tracey Raney,
Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Anne K. Ream,
Activist and Founder of The Voices and Faces Project
Laura Richards
BSc, MSc, MBPsS, Criminal Behavioural Analyst
Jennifer Robinson,
Australian human rights lawyer and barrister at Doughty St Chambers, U.K. counsel to Amber Heard, author of How Many More Women?
Diane Rosenfeld,
Lecturer on Law, Director, Gender Violence Program, Harvard Law School
Lily Kay Ross, MDiv, Ph.D.
Feminism and Ethics Research Fellow, Psymposia
Daniel Sabbeth,
MD, PhD, Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist. Former Director of Training in Forensic Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
David A. Santacroce,
Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Dr. Lex Santiago,
Academic & Scholar of Psychedelic (sociomedical humanities) Science trained in Global Health, Political Geography, Philosophy, Ethics & Theology. Sexual harassment & IPV Victim-Survivor Advocate; Focusing on LGBTQ men & women of Asian, Pacific Islander & Filipinx descent.
Jeanne Sarson,
co-author, “Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win,” Co-Founder Persons Against Non-State Torture.
Purna Sen,
Ph.D. Visiting Professor, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, LMU Special Advisor to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
Kascindra Shewan,
Ph.D, Ph.D in Sexualised Violence Prevention (McMaster University), Current Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sexualised Violence Prevention (McGill University)
Dr. John Simister,
Ph.D., Domestic Violence and Economics Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Business School Manchester Metropolitan University
Ann Simonton,
Founder Director of Media Watch: For Improving image of Women in Media
Rita Smith,
National Expert on Violence Against Women, Former Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
Rachel Louise Snyder,
Professor, American University, Author, “No Visible Bruises”
Evan Stark, Ph.D., MSW,
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
Gloria Steinem,
Writer, Activist
Leslie Morgan Steiner,
Advocate, Author, “Crazy Love”
Roslyn Talusan,
Journalist and Anti-Rape Activist
Ruth Silver Taube,
Adjunct Professor of Law, Santa Clara University, Legal Services Co-Chair, South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, Delegate, Santa Clara County’s Human Trafficking Commission (all titles for identification purposes only)
Dr. Jessica Taylor,
Chartered Psychologist, CEO of Victim Focus
Alison Turkos,
Survivor + Advocate
Vanessa Tyson,
Associate Professor of Politics, Scripps College
Lee Upshur,
DEI (Diversity & Inclusion) Manager
Robin West, J.D.,
Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
Merle Weiner, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon (title for identification purposes only)
Amy Willard-Cross,
Founder Gender Fair
Christina L. Winters,
Ph.D. Psychologist & Researcher, Tilburg Law School
James Wood,
Press and Marketing Director, McAllister Olivarius
Constance Wu,
Actor and author
Sophia Yen, M.D.,
Adolescent Medicine Specialist, CEO/Founder of Pandia Health
Amy Ziering,
Filmmaker
All titles and institutions provided for identification purposes only for all signatories.
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