Let’s Talk About Rape® is a movement that challenges the silence and stigma surrounding sexual violence. Through photography and creative expression, the project empowers survivors to reclaim their narratives, confront trauma, and redefine themselves as survivors, not victims.
By using photography as therapy, the project fosters deep personal engagement, creating powerful images that demand recognition, showcasing strength, dignity, and defiance. Survivors’ stories, from war-related rape to child sexual abuse, reveal the truth that shame belongs to the perpetrator, not the survivor.
Let’s Talk About Rape® shifts the narrative from victimhood to resilience and resistance, breaking societal taboos and fostering empowerment.
Jadwiga Brontē
Ciara, a drug-rape survivor from Ireland ©2024 Jadwiga Brontē & Ciara Mangan
Elisabeth, a conflict-related rape survivor from Kenya ©2024 Jadwiga Brontē & Elisabeth Evidah
Elena, an Indigenous Ixil Maya survivor of conflict-related rape from Guatemala ©2024 Jadwiga Brontē & Elena de Paz Santiago
Najma, an ISIS captivity and sex slave survivor from Iraq ©2024 Jadwiga Brontē & Najma Haji Khadida
March 2025
Visual art weaves truth into vision, confronting injustice with silent power. It reveals hidden stories, stirs hearts to action, and has always been a form of activism. It transcends boundaries, holding a mirror to the world while imagining a more just and hopeful future.
February 2025
Visual art weaves truth into vision, confronting injustice with silent power. It reveals hidden stories, stirs hearts to action, and has always been a form of activism. It transcends boundaries, holding a mirror to the world while imagining a more just and hopeful future.
February 2025
Visual art weaves truth into vision, confronting injustice with silent power. It reveals hidden stories, stirs hearts to action, and has always been a form of activism. It transcends boundaries, holding a mirror to the world while imagining a more just and hopeful future.
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Dexpierte is a Colombian artistic action collective with 5 core members and numerous contributors. For over 12 years, they have transformed public spaces across Latin America, addressing issues like extreme inequality, cultural identity, discrimination, conflict, and violence.
Their work reactivates historical memory, fostering healing and learning for the future. Using techniques such as stenciling, posters, painting, and video mapping, they promote collective and community learning in urban and rural contexts. Workshops for all ages encourage active participation, involving citizens in enriching local public memory and broadening the impact of their interventions.
Colectivo Dexpierte has created an impactful mural on a street in Bogotá, in support of the “Let’s Talk About Rape” campaign. The mural features a photograph by photographer Jadwiga Brontë, created in collaboration with survivor Nancy.
Text on the wall:
“In the land of Neverland, Nancy is a brave and resilient woman. A survivor of the armed conflict in Colombia, she is a teacher and community leader.
Sexual violence has been a mechanism of control in the war by all armed actors. The body has been a battleground, a conflict that has left indelible scars on the skin of a country that demands never again any type of violence on the bodies.”
A 1977 performance piece, ‘Three Weeks in May’ by Suzanne Lacy, visually exposed the extent of reported rapes in Los Angeles over a three-week period. This large-scale installation and performance marked the beginning of Lacy’s work addressing violence against women, establishing the strategies and processes that would define her future projects—both independently and in collaboration with Leslie Labowitz under the collective Ariadne: A Social Art Network.
Suzanne Lacy is renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging.
