Right to Campus, a student organization at McGill University that promotes an inclusive and equitable culture on campus, held a free screening of the documentary UnSlut at McGill on Jan. UnSlut follows the stories of several women and girls who have been victims of slut-shaming and sexual violence.
Their traumatic experiences are explicitly discussed and layered with comments from psychologists, sexologists, activists and other experts of sexuality and social behaviour. The entire documentary is intense and heartbreaking.
But it is also imperative, as it allows for a deep understanding of the impacts of the sexual abuse, bullying and harassment that are rampant in high schools and in North American society as a whole. The panel consisted of Vrinda Narain, an associate professor and the associate dean of the faculty of law at McGill, Kathryn Travers, the executive director of Women in Cities International, and Dr. Emily Lindin, the director of the film and the creator of the UnSlut Project , narrates throughout the film.
In , Parsons committed suicide a year and a half after being gang raped and then relentlessly harassed, in person and online, by classmates.
She had been subjected to extreme slut-shaming, even after switching high schools. Lindin said she recognized the commonness and gravity of these experiences and decided to work towards starting a nationwide conversation.
