For decades, our perception of Gender Based Violence has been moulded by popular representation of it. Survivors have been portrayed as powerless objects, whose identities are shaped by the tragedy that befell them, who are worthy only of our pity, capable only of silent mourning.  A simple online search will throw us illustrations like this which are primarily used by media houses to depict rape and gender based violence.

The purpose of these images is to recreate and reimagine popular representations of gender-based-violence (GBV), with an aim of making them more feminist, and eventually creating a repository of images, photographs, vectors and artwork that can be used by media organizations, and journals to represent GBV.