‘Surviving SOGICE’

The ‘Surviving SOGICE’ project will establish a digital open access platform to raise awareness and promote policy action on SOGICE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts) in Europe. The aim is to fill in knowledge gaps among the public and in research on SOGICE practices in Europe, i.e. practices that aim to change, repress or suppress an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

The project is building an accessible archive of testimonies from survivors and relevant media, to provide information and insight on the harmful effects of SOGICE, and to support advocacy efforts to ban such practices in Europe.

The platform is part of the PhD project ‘Digital Artifacts of Awareness and Belonging for the LGBTQIA+ Community’, at the University of Bergen, Norway. The research is being developed in collaboration with the Department of Information and Media Studies and the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. 

The Nordic Gender Fund is contributing to the project's visual identity and website.