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Nicole Pietsch

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Born

Canada

Website

http://www.namelos.com/

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

Stephen King, S.E. Hinton, Alan Cumyn ...more

Member Since

October 2013

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Since 1998, Nicole has assisted women and youth living with violence, including immigrant and refugee women and survivors of sexual violence. Most recently, she has worked with youth survivors of violence who are incarcerated, those living in an institutional setting, and Deaf youth.

Nicole has a particular interest in the ways in which social constructs of sex, gender, age and race inform Canadian social policy, including law. Much of her work centres around the ways in which violence – including the imminence of violence, one’s risk of being targeted for acts of violence, and system response to violence – affects different women and girls differently. As a community-based advocate, Nicole regularly witnesses how class, race, gender, profe Since 1998, Nicole has assisted women and youth living with violence, including immigrant and refugee women and survivors of sexual violence. Most recently, she has worked with youth survivors of violence who are incarcerated, those living in an institutional setting, and Deaf youth.

Nicole has a particular interest in the ways in which social constructs of sex, gender, age and race inform Canadian social policy, including law. Much of her work centres around the ways in which violence – including the imminence of violence, one’s risk of being targeted for acts of violence, and system response to violence – affects different women and girls differently. As a community-based advocate, Nicole regularly witnesses how class, race, gender, professional credentials, immigration status and other social tiers affect women and youth's experiences.

Nicole’s written work has appeared in York University’s Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and the University of Toronto’s Women’s Health and Urban Life.

Nicole’s review of how the media and legal system interpreted race and gender within the Reena Virk case is called “Born” Freaks, “Made” Freaks, and Media Circuses: Systemic Management of Race and Gender in the Virk Case.

Her fictional work, Sideshow of Merit, is published by namelos press.

"Tevan and James continue to try to survive, to find a community," Nicole says of Sideshow of Merit's challenging - and sometimes offensive - protagonists. "They aim to draw conclusions about who is responsible for the exploitation they endured (with Bern; and again at the sideshow); and in the end find that they do not bear this responsibility personally...

Sideshow invites the reader to consider and reconsider what constitutes resolution to trauma and violation. To Tevan, resolution is not about Bern being arrested, being forgiven or issuing him some kind of payback. The bottom line for Tevan is understanding that what happened was not his fault. And understanding that you can love the person who hurt you, and the abuse still remains absolutely wrong. To me, that’s success." ...more

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Rotenberg writes: "There’s something deep within us that makes choking a particularly horrifying offence"

Recent allegations of sexual and physical assault leveled against CBC star Jian Ghomeshi took the Canadian media by storm. Weeks later, following allegations from over 10 female victims, Ghomeshi surrendered to Toronto Police and was charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of “overcome resistance – choking.”

Many have found Tevan's narrative of choking and sexual violence offensiv Read more of this blog post »

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