Speak Research Project

Sample Research Topics

• Media portrayals of survivors of sexual assault

• Punishments/legal penalties for sexual assault across different states

• Impact of sexual assault on mental health

• Strategies to heal from trauma

• Social systems in high schools

• Empowering survivors of rape

• Censorship of Speak 

Keywords

High School Dynamics: Social isolation, ostracism in school, peer isolation, teen bullying, social media harassment

Sexual Harassment & Assault: Sexual abuse, teen harassment, adolescent sexual assault statistics, nonconsensual

Trauma & Healing: Art therapy, trauma response, Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), sexual assault survivors, empowering survivors, #MeToo, trauma informed care

Trauma, Healing, and Empowering Survivors

• 75% of sexual assault survivors have PTSD one month later (2021) UW Medicine

• Recovering from Sexual Violence - RAINN

• Help Someone You Care About - RAINN

• Brain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience (2023) New York Times 

• Chanel Miller, Sexual Assault Survivor, On The 'Immense Relief' Of Going Public (2019) NPR

• The Impact of the Me Too Movement's Journalism (2021) Yale Journal of International Affairs

General Book/Author Information

• Interview - Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking for the Voiceless (2023) PEN America

• 15 years of SPEAK: An Interview with Laurie Halse Anderson (2014) Book Riot

• Using Young Adult Novels to Make Sense of #MeToo (2018) New York Times

• The Voice of 'Speak' Is Loud as Ever (2012) The Atlantic