'Hazing, booze and bedrooms': an autoethnography of sexual trauma in a university residential college

Elizabeth Mackinlay

doi:10.1080/07294360.2024.2376132

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'Hazing, booze and bedrooms': an autoethnography of sexual trauma in a university residential college

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'Hazing, booze and bedrooms': an autoethnography of sexual trauma in a university residential college

Elizabeth Mackinlay

Higher education research and development, Vol.43(8), pp.1816-1829

16/11/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2376132

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University residential colleges

higher education

gendered violence

autoethnography

This autoethnographic essay, ‘Hazing, booze and bedrooms’, explores my personal experience of sexual trauma in a university residential college and its cultural significance. The essay is written at a time of urgency to address gendered violence within Australian universities, with the release of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032 and The Commonwealth Consent Policy Framework. I use autoethnography to explore the trauma across one body and time, moving through the space of four bedrooms. Each bedroom represents a different aspect of the narrative: the autoethnographic approach to writing about sexual trauma, a summary of research on gender-based violence in Australian universities, and my own personal experiences in the residential college bedrooms she occupied in the early 1990s. The essay concludes by reflecting on the value of bearing autoethnographic witness to sexual trauma and questioning what might happen next regarding moves to eliminate practices of hazing and sexual violence in university residential colleges, and in a call to action, asks, ‘If not now, when?’

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Title: 'Hazing, booze and bedrooms': an autoethnography of sexual trauma in a university residential college
Creators: Elizabeth Mackinlay - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Education
Publication Details: Higher education research and development, Vol.43(8), pp.1816-1829
Publisher: Routledge
Number of pages: 14
Grant note: University of Queensland
Identifiers: 991013212613602368
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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