Guest post by Mariel In honor of sexual assault awareness month, here is a satirical video (note: features robots) from Sociological Images that pokes fun at the way we tell women how not to be sexually assaulted. Instead, it outlines a way we can tell men how not to sexually assault: Top Ten Strategies That [...]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Guest post written by Mariel According to the Department of Justice, 1 in 6 women will face some type of sexual violence in their lifetime. One of the ways to work to eliminate this violence is to raise awareness. Don’t know how to raise awareness for sexual assault on your campus? The blog Stop Street [...]
Slut-Shaming vs. Rape Jokes
November 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Guest post by Kat As a prelude to this blog post, I should probably mention that through interning with the Feminist Majority Foundation, I’ve been reading a lot of feminist blogs, in order to write more educated blogs. Since my formal education has been primarily focused on International Political science and Anthropology, reading all these [...]
Breaking Down Some Bars
June 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Guest post by Ellen If you’ve been reading the blog lately, you will probably remember some posts last week about women in prison. I wrote one last week about a court case in Illinois where some former inmates are sueing for being shackled while in labor, and my buddy Emily wrote one about the creation [...]
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