In what ways women survivors of gender violence negotiate their traumatic lived experiences through silencing and/or testimonial/autobiographical writing?

Question 1 : In what ways women survivors of gender violence negotiate their traumatic lived experiences through silencing and/or testimonial/autobiographical writing?

Question 2 : Drawing on Veena Dass The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity, apply the concept of poisonous knowledge in one of the case studies discussed in class (for instance, Northern Ireland, Greece, Argentina, Bolivia, etc.).