The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

As Nora Samaran writes, "violence is nurturance turned backwards." In its place, she proposes "nurturance culture" as the opposite of rape culture, suggesting that models of care and accountability — different from "call-outs" — can move communities toward dismantling systems of dominance and oppression.

This audiobook contains the viral 2016 essay "The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture," which also appears as Chapter One of the book Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, AK Press, 2019.

Narrated by the author.