Tag Archives: Sexual Assault
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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“Who are you?” Bystander intervention as another means to end sexual violence
TweetEd. note: I’m off this week. The wonderful Tobias Rodriguez is filling in for me. Tobias originally hails from Texas and now lives in New York where he works in social media at a reproductive health organization. *Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault and alluding imagery.* Since Steubenville, there’s been a lot of discussion [...]
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A mainstream media conversation about Steubenville and rape culture
TweetI was thrilled to be included in a conversation about rape culture last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC. The segment focused on the problematic media coverage of yesterday’s Steubenville verdict and included me, Professor Salamishah Tillet, and Irin Carmon. And what happens when you have three out feminists talking about rape culture on [...]
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