Tag Archives: FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture

Quick Hit: Transforming community responses to rape

By Alexandra | Published: May 28, 2013
TweetRebecca Nagle of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture has a great post at Everyday Feminism about the challenges of publicly supporting survivors of sexual violence. She writes: Currently, we have plenty of models for how individuals can support survivors of rape. Feminists have built and maintained crisis centers, hotlines, and emergency services. Anti-violence organizations have created [...]
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Help build a national monument to survivors of sexual violence

By Alexandra | Published: May 7, 2013
Tweet Remember PINK loves CONSENT? The activists behind the brilliant pank campaign to promote communicative, hot, consensual sex have been building temporary tributes to survivors of sexual violence (like the projection above) on the national mall while working to create a permanent national monument. FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is now planning its biggest intervention yet. The [...]
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Thank You Thursday: PINK loves CONSENT

By Alexandra | Published: December 6, 2012
TweetFor a couple of hours earlier this week, Victoria’s Secret–known for its push-up bras and cultural appropriation–gained some serious feminist cred. Midday on Monday, a website for a “new line,” PINK loves CONSENT, launched. The site displayed images a diverse group of models showing off lingerie, similar in style to VS’s teen/college PINK line, emblazoned [...]
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