Tag Archives: Sexual Assault

Anti-Feminist Victim Blamer in my own backyard

By zerlina | Published: January 20, 2012
So I’m sitting in Business Associations class Wednesday night pretending to listen to the professor talk about tort liability (just kidding, I was really paying attention!) and I get a Facebook message from a like-minded law school classmate. The message says that the law school’s Federalist Society is having an event the next day called, [...]
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How the war on reproductive rights hurts women with disabilities

Originally posted in Community Blog

By Courtney | Published: January 13, 2012
*TRIGGER WARNING* With one of today’s articles on Feministing’s main page being Eesha Pandit’s coverage of the NC victims of eugenics sterilization being compensated, as well as the training I participated in for the organization I work for, I got to thinking about just how vulnerable women with disabilities are to sexual assault – and [...]
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New ‘Men Can Stop Rape’ Ads Rock

By zerlina | Published: January 12, 2012
Men Can Stop Rape has a new ad campaign and it is pretty great. When we go on and on about how rape prevention ads should be targeted at men, this is what we mean. Let’s make anti-rape culture, the new culture. These ads are smart and a welcome relief in a world where women [...]
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Binge drinking, straw man arguments and rape prevention

By zerlina | Published: December 22, 2011
In 2007, I went out to a party with my friends. It wasn’t a night where I was drinking more than usual but I had a few cocktails. It was a work night so by the end I was mostly tired more than drunk and just ready to go home. When I got home, however, [...]
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Frat suspended after surveying its members on who they would like to rape

By Maya | Published: December 15, 2011
Really, Sigma Phi Epsilon? There’s no way the University of Vermont frat really thought it was ok to send a survey to its members asking, “If you could rape anyone, who would it be?” Is there? (Wait, don’t answer that.) But now that the survey has been leaked to the interwebs–apparently because a new member [...]
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