Sarah Martin

Akong Sala is an exploration of my life as 25 year old genderqueer person in a household that is made up of a range of generations, citizenship statuses, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic levels. In this short home video, I reflect on my white sister’s use of ebonics, on the way I am able to move around as a masculine presenting person in a patriarchal household, on how technology brings my sisters together while separating me from them, on how wealth shapes our interactions, and how all of these tensions settle in the living room between me and my sisters.

Please maintain eye contact during the film is the product of my research on the rehabilitation of sex offenders, my work counseling perpetrators and survivors of sexual assault, and my personal experience as a survivor of sexual violence. This film is a call for a focus on future survivors of sexual assault and on the culture of exiling perpetrators on college campuses all in an effort to end recidivism.