ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the harmful silence that exists around child sexual abuse and how we might break it. Abuse occurs in a societal context and as part of a continuum, bound up with inequality, erasure and misrepresentations of victims. It is impossible to divorce the experience of interpersonal violence and trauma from wider systemic power and human rights. Oppressive stereotypes about survivors exist, often intersecting with other forms of prejudice and discrimination. As clinicians, researchers and practitioners, we have an ethical duty to join with those engaged with demands for justice and survivor rights.
