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By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

7 things you should know about evidence in campus rape proceedings

Today, our favorite rape denialist Emily Yoffe wrote a really troubling article on campus gender-based violence adjudication, full of ethical, legal, and factual errors. There’s too much to address in one article (I’ll get to the rest in a few pieces), but one of her most damaging misrepresentations is around how much evidence is required in these disciplinary proceedings. 

Today, our favorite rape denialist Emily Yoffe wrote a really troubling article on campus gender-based violence adjudication, full of ethical, legal, and factual errors. There’s too much to address in one article (I’ll get to ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Feminist radicalism isn’t a “brand problem”

There’s been a lot of recent discussion recently about feminism’s supposed public relations problem. Both Hanna Rosin at Double X and Abigail Rine at the Atlantic have suggested we might want to abandon the “f-word” altogether. People like our ideas, they argue, but have negative associations with feminism.

I appreciated Samhita’s recent intervention about creating a movement open to those who feel excluded by the binary-enforcing “gender equality” platform. As absolutely essential as that work is, I don’t think either of us would claim that the startling statistic Samhita was addressing—that 82% of Americans support equality “between the sexes” but only 20% identify as feminist—is primarily the result of a lingering commitment to ...

There’s been a lot of recent discussion recently about feminism’s supposed public relations problem. Both Hanna Rosin at Double X and Abigail Rine at the Atlantic have suggested we might want to abandon ...