This course will interrogate the ways in which intimacy is entwined with our conduct towards others. As human beings, we are involved in sexual, romantic, and ethical relations with one another and such relations can be pleasurable, ambiguous, or oftentimes violent. This course will examine discourses about rape and intimate partner violence, practices that seek to eliminate these acts, and philosophies that seek to understand what it means to be ethical in our intimate relations. Our guiding questions include: What are the roles of gender, sexuality, and race in shaping understandings of rape and sexual violability? Why are conversations around sexual violence often muted even though the phenomenon is ubiquitous across college campuses and societies across the world? What would it mean to exist in a world without rape or sexual violence? What changes would this require to society, our relationships, and ourselves?