Posts Tagged It Happens Here

SinN2
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, ...

Surviving at Amherst
By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Amherst student debunks all the rape myths in the school’s “sexual misconduct” report

In response to former student Angie Epifano’s account of Amherst’s shockingly cruel and inept response to her sexual assault, the school called together a Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct to conduct an investigation of campus policy and practice.  Last week the Committee released its 55-page report.

While the document does criticize Amherst’s approach to sexual violence, it simultaneously absolves both the school and rapists of blame by characterizing assault as an unfortunate accident: “Something goes wrong and a sexual assault does occur,” the report reads.

It Happens Here, an Amherst blog dedicated to discussion of campus sexual violence, has published a response to the report by student activist Dana Bolger. The whole piece is ...

In response to former student Angie Epifano’s account of Amherst’s shockingly cruel and inept response to her sexual assault, the school called together a Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct to conduct an investigation of ...