Tag Archives: rape culture

Rehtaeh Parsons is dead

Tweet**Trigger warning** Seventeen months ago, then 15-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was gang-raped by four boys in her friend’s house. One of her rapists took a picture of the assault and circulated it around her school and community. Classmates saw the photo not as evidence of rape but as proof that Parsons was a “slut.” When she [...]
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Not cool, bro

TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Alexei Fraser. Alexei currently lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts. She works as a child wrangler and hopes to one day become a professor of feminist early modern history. *Trigger warning* While watching the media circus surrounding the Steubenville trial, I think about which actions could have [...]
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Rick Ross, Don Draper, and the fantasy world of masculinity

Tweet Ed. note: This is a guest post from Mychal Denzel Smith. He is a writer, social commentator, and mental health advocate whose work on politics, social justice, mental health, and black male identity has appeared in outlets such as The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Gawker, Salon, The Root, and more. I’ve been thinking a lot [...]
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Tweet UNC student paper The Daily Tar Heel takes a stand against campus sexual violence. The Princeton alum who wants students to get their MRSs ASAP is just digging herself deeper and deeper. “Withholding war-raped women the right to safe abortion is a form of violence.” Towson University’s White Student Union is terrifying. Men need [...]
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Weekly Feminist Reader

Tweet Princeton alum tells female students to hurry up and find a husband already. Sandberg, Slaughter, et al. are advocating for a new feminism devoid of social justice. In memory of Pastor Henry Enuta. Duh: pre-viability abortions bans are unconstitutional. Feminists don’t hate men–they just hate you, MRA dude. Conservative justices thought this year was their last [...]
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