Posts Tagged campus violence

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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

Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Brown anti-violence zine

Feminists at Brown University have gone old school.

Yesterday student Lena Sclove filed federal Title IX and Clery Act complaints against the Rhode Island university, which has been in the news recently for tolerating sexual violence on campus. On campus, organizers are coupling these high-profile efforts with that traditional feminist punk protest: the zine. Bluestockings Magazine, a student multimedia collective, has put out a gorgeous issue exposing and resisting violence on campus. The survivor narratives are powerful and the design striking, but perhaps most noteworthy is the fierce utopianism, a refusal to accept rape culture as an inevitability to be managed rather than abolished. “Re:imagine (a world without sexual violence),” the zine demands, right above ...

Feminists at Brown University have gone old school.

Yesterday student Lena Sclove filed federal Title IX and Clery Act complaints against the Rhode Island university, which has been in the news recently for

By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

bell hooks says: unplug this weekend!

Vox hired gay homophobe and transmisogynist Brandon Ambrosino.

Fuck the magazines that support Terry Richardson.

50,000 demand change at Dartmouth after student publishes “rape guide.”

And 116,000 demand federal campus violence policy change.

The diversity in media bingo card.

bell hooks says: unplug this weekend!

Vox hired gay homophobe and transmisogynist Brandon Ambrosino.

Fuck the magazines that support Terry Richardson.

50,000 demand change at Dartmouth after student publishes “rape ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A love letter to anxious ladies.

Black women are an electoral voting force.

White belly dancers and cultural appropriation.

The Army’s top sexual assault prosecutor has been suspended after assault allegation.

Over the trend of black “it” girls.

Filibuster for military sexual trauma.

Hate to link to TMZ, but they’ve got the most quotes straight from Crossfit on their transmisogyny.

Brooklyn elementary school ignored repeated abuse of student.

A love letter to anxious ladies.

Black women are an electoral voting force.

White belly dancers and cultural appropriation.

The Army’s top sexual assault prosecutor has been suspended after assault allegation.
By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage has been ruled unconstitutional.

“The biggest flaw in current anti-poverty policies is that they don’t take into account the increasing role that fathers play in children’s lives.”

Perpetrators of sexual violence will no longer be issued visas to visit the United States.

The West Virginia chemical spill is a reproductive justice issue.

UC-Berkeley faces a new Title IX complaint.

UConn, meanwhile, ignored sexual harassment claims against a music professor.

Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage has been ruled unconstitutional.

“The biggest flaw in current anti-poverty policies is that they don’t take into account the increasing role that fathers play in children’s lives.”

Perpetrators of sexual ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Feministing Follow Friday: Student Anti-Violence Orgs

On Wednesday, Obama announced that he is creating a task force to combat campus sexual violence. It’s not perfect — it’s pretty hetero, its focus is too carceral — but presidential commitment is also a big step, and I basically cried tears of happiness all day (and then ate chocolate cake). In his speech, Obama gave a major shout-out to student organizers, so I wanted to honor that by pointing out some of my favorite student-run anti-violence organizations and collectives on Twitter. Including my own. Sorry.

On Wednesday, Obama announced that he is creating a task force to combat campus sexual violence. It’s not perfect — it’s pretty hetero, its focus is too carceral — but presidential commitment ...

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By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with “Surviving in Numbers”

Last October, Mount Holyoke junior Ali Safran returned to her Massachusetts hometown to hang a sign. She’d been assaulted three years earlier in the exact spot where she now posted her story, a statistic about sexual violence, and a call to action.

Now, Safran is providing other students with a platform to hang their own signs for a much bigger audience.

Reflecting on her own frustrations with the criminal justice system after her assault, “I felt that people probably had similar stories,” Safran recalls. In honor of April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she has launched “Surviving in Numbers,” a Tumblr dedicated to amplifying the voices of campus survivors by publishing pictures of posters like her own. Although reminiscent of projects ...

Last October, Mount Holyoke junior Ali Safran returned to her Massachusetts hometown to hang a sign. She’d been assaulted three years earlier in the exact spot where she now posted her story, a statistic about sexual violence, ...