Her Story Consulting
Tangentyere Women Council
WoSSCA
gender based violence prevention animations
About this project
This project is a series of powerful and educational animations about key concepts related to domestic, family, and sexual violence contextualised to the Northern Territory.
Remember: spot the signs, believe and validate, prioritise safety, and encourage action. Help is available.
This type of work helps share sensitive information and content to help people understand subject matter, drive action and challenge harmful beliefs towards women.
This is a fully custom animation, crafted from concept to completion. The process began with hand-drawn storyboards to visualise the narrative and visually translating the key messaging. Detailed illustrations were then created, followed by meticulous animation.
This hands-on approach ensured a high level of quality and attention to detail, and a realistic and respectful representation of the people. Violence is represented metaphorically. Human-made!
What works to prevent violence against women?
This animation draws upon the RESPECT and Hopeful, Together, Strong frameworks to explain what works to prevent violence against women. This animation aims to communicate the evidence base and reinforce the hopefulness of our work - because violence against women IS preventable.
Drivers of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women
This animation is modelled of
Our Watch Changing the picture.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women report experiencing violence at 3x the rate of non-Indigenous women, are hospitalised at 32 times the rate of non-Indigenous women, and are 11 times more likely to be killed than non-Indigenous women.
In the Northern Territory, Indigenous women are killed by their intimate partners at almost 13 times the rate of non-Indigenous women or men.
To change the picture we need to take the following actions:
1. Address the legacies and ongoing impacts of colonisation for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people, families and communities
2. Address the legacies and ongoing impacts of colonisation for non-Indigenous
people, and across Australian society
3. Address the gendered drivers of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander women.
Why does the NT experiences such high rates of domestic, family and sexual violence?
A question Her Story are often asked in their trainings is: why is the violence in the NT so high? This animation uses the socio-ecological model to explain why the NT experiences such high rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence.
Coercive control
Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours and tactics used by an individual to dominate, manipulate and control their partner or other person they are in an intimate relationship with.
Coercive control almost always underpins domestic, family and sexual violence.
Coercive control is a form of psychological abuse that can include both physical and non-physical forms of violence aimed at maintaining power and control over the victim.
Whilst coercive control can happen anywhere, there are particular manifestations within the NT which are highly contextual.
Remember: spot the signs, believe and validate, prioritise safety, and encourage action. Help is available.
Family Violence Prevention Program Manager: Dr. Chay Brown
