Demarginalizing the Experiences of Black Womxn who Survived Campus Sexual Violence: A Narrative Inquiry

Limited scholarship exists on the experiences of diverse Black womxn who have survived campus sexual violence. Campus sexual violence scholarship frequently examines minoritized students, like Black womxn, as a monolithic group without cultural nuance and strengths or compare them to their cisheterosexual white able-bodied counterparts. Insufficient scholarship about Black womxn students who survived campus sexual violence means that institutions of higher education do not fully understand the nuance related to all students’ experiences of campus sexual violence and persistence. The purpose of this study is to center the experiences of Black and African Ascendant womxn with diverse gender expressions and sexualities to examine how Black womxn students narrate their experiences surviving campus sexual violence.