Abstract
This thesis examined rape and sexual assault survivor narratives in visual images to better understand lived experiences of sexual assault. The thesis sought to determine ideologies of sexual assault that emerge on the tumblr blog Project Unbreakable through examining eight survivor narratives. In addition, this thesis focused on discovering rhetorical strategies employed by survivors of rape and sexual assault when explicating their experiences. A rhetorical ideological critique informed by theories of feminism and cultural studies discovered ideologies of sexual assault in chosen images by employing Rice’s (2004) omnaphistic visual schema to analyze postmodern visual images. In highlighting oppositional elements, co-constructed elements, contextual elements, and ideological elements in each image, this thesis was able to discover rhetorical strategies used by survivors to shed light on experiences of sexual assault.