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Rape Prevention 101: Don’t Dress Like a Slut, Obvs
Looks like victim blaming is still all the rage. How many times have you ever heard guys (and sometimes girls) say in response to reports of rape/sexual assault/sexual harassment, “well, what was she...
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Wartime Rape: A Primer
The news of Libya’s Gadhafi giving his soldiers Viagra to perpetrate rape as a weapon of war may seem shocking to some. It’s hard to conceptualize such brutality and even harder when news of it seems...
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Proposed Bill Makes Pregnant Rape Victims Evidence Incubators
In what can only be described as a completely heinous, ridiculous and inhumane act, a New Mexico lawmaker has introduced a bill that would criminalize abortion for rape victims. Yes. You read that...
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Justice Served?
In my very first post, Taking Rape Seriously, I reported on the NYC case of Tony Simmons, who was found guilty of sexually assaulting youths under his care as a city employee. Today, he was sentenced....
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NYT: 11-Year-Old Gang Rape Victim To Blame
That’s more or less the message behind yesterday’s New York Times article about an 11-year-old girl who was gang raped in Texas. The girl was gang raped by 18 men and teenaged boys in an abandoned...
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An Open Letter to the NY Daily News
Although the Daily News printed one paragraph of a letter to the editor I submitted in response to the “sex romp” debacle, it has yet to issue an apology or retract the egregious term. As such, what...
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On Confronting My Rapist
** Trigger warning ** I am a statistic. I represent the 1 out of 6 American women who are victims of attempted or completed rapes in their lifetimes. I am among those victims who never reported their...
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Bystander Intervention: Addressing VAW
In 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death in an apartment complex in Queens. After the incident, the public was outraged to hear that there were 38 people who did nothing to help her...
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Links We Love
New York lawmakers successfully called on the state legislature to pass a bill that will protect pregnant women from employment discrimination. See RH Reality Check. Facebook has modified its nudity...
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The EEOC announces tougher rules to protect pregnant workers. See NPR. The Washington Post reports that young women face sexual harassment in the science field. After Rhode Island decriminalized...
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The Supreme Court upholds a New York City law that requires crisis pregnancy centers in New York City to inform patients that they do not have any medical professionals on staff. See The Feminist...
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NPR features an activist promoting hygiene and body positivity for girls in low-income countries. The New York Times explores America’s evolving positive attitude towards women in politics. We finally...
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Missouri becomes the first state to expand insurance coverage for eating disorders. See Think Progress. The Obama administration declares federal benefits can no longer exclude “gender transition...
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The Notorious RBG steps in to call it like it is: poor women in America don’t have enough reproductive choice. See the Huffington Post. After Donald Trump’s lawyer claimed Trump isn’t a rapist because...
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