Ep 25: The Role of Art in Healing Trauma, Titty Trampolines & the Museum of Sex ft. Emily Shoyer

Emily Shoyer is the Consulting Curator at the Museum of Sex in New York City while she pursues her PhD in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania where she focuses on the intersections of contemporary art and traumatic experience through a decolonial and psychoanalytic lens. In November she opened "Reclaiming & Making: Art, Desire, Violence" at the Museum of Sex, an exhibition confronting the complex relationship between sex and violence through the artwork of 15 living female and non-binary artists and organizations. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the Jewish Museum.

In this episode, we dive into:

• The intersections of contemporary art and sexual trauma
• Art as terrain for marginalized folk to share voice & story
• Art as window into lived experience and stories you may otherwise not hear
• Art as an avenue for healing and processing trauma 
• Addressing female genital mutilation and imagined violence for marginalized communities through art
• The role that art and writing played in Marlee’s healing after sexual trauma
• Conversations around sexuality that reflect wholeness: from violence to beautiful erotic experience
• Social media censorship and the harmful impact of suppression
• Defining resiliency in the survivor community
• Empowered choice when it comes to how we do or don't share our stories; overcoming shame around ‘sensationalizing’ our stories

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