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Poster Presentation Gallery

Grand Hall | time TBD

The Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) is excited to announce the second annual academic poster presentation event at the Conference in Dallas, Texas!

In collaboration with the Crime Victims’ Institute (CVI) at Sam Houston State University, the poster presentation event responds to attendees’ requests for additional evidence-based and data-driven content to complement the expertise shared by workshop facilitators.

Not only will you receive admission to attend the Conference on Crimes Against Women, the grand prize winner will also receive a FREE slot to the two-day Aquatic Abuse Death & Homicide Investigation class ($349 value) graciously donated by Team LGS. Click HERE to learn more about the course.

Click below to learn more information about the poster presentation:

POSTER PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

"What Were You Wearing?"

The Role of Victim-Blaming & Indifference in Facilitating & Perpetuating Crimes Against Women

Press Room | Time TBD

What Were You Wearing? (WWYW) functions as both an immersive art exhibit and a survivor-led human rights investigation that documents not only the harms of victim-blaming, but the systemic and ongoing consequences of institutional indifference, disbelief, inaction, and blame by some police, prosecutors, judges, first responders, and family court representatives.

Building on the global WWYW movement inspired by the poem “What I Was Wearing,” this exhibit pairs clothing, survivor words, and objects with institutional records, contextual statistics, and publicly available audio/video, including police bodycam footage and evidentiary material that was disregarded or mishandled. The result is a curated archive that confronts cultural normalization of violence against women and exposes how systemic failures enable repeat harm.

Prior WWYW visitors have described the exhibit as “transformative” and “the most powerful exhibit I’ve ever seen.” This iteration builds on earlier versions by focusing on identifying and mapping patterns of institutional complicity, offering the dual experience of an art installation and a documentary investigation. Attendees move at their own pace through a space designed for reflection and reckoning. It offers an unflinching look at the often invisible patterns of systemic failure and the catastrophic impact of disbelief, indifference, and inaction, engaging visitors not as bystanders, but as witnesses.