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Practice-based tools for self-expression: Supporting women to claim their voices post-violence
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Practice-based tools for self-expression: Supporting women to claim their voices post-violence

Bree Glasbergen
NiTRO & Creative Matters, Vol.10(October), pp.1-11
2025
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https://creativematters.edu.au/practice-based-tools-for-self-expression/View
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Abstract

Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) Feminist methodologies Playwriting oracle cards practice-led research voice-as-agency gender-based violence creative practice research
Can creative self-expression support women to gain or claim their voices? This research explores the dialogic nature of self-reflective questions in oracle cards as provocations for theatre and investigates if and how these provocations can assist women with self-expression. A sample deck of oracle cards – including self-reflective questions – were crafted and then tested as provocations for playwriting. These cards were used in practice-based research to explore how they may elicit vocality, employing practice-led research as a methodology and playwriting as a method. Through the creative process, themes centred around gender-based violence emerged. These practice-led insights merge gender-based violence's loss of identarian agency and research on vocal studies to provide a possible practice-based avenue to support women to recover their voice-as-agency post-violence.

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