While avoiding the hundreds of things I had to do this week, I decided to visit StumbleUpon (one of my favorite procrastination websites). Clicking through some of the fashion pages, juvenile comics, and uplifting quotes, I stumbled upon a page that caught my eye immediately. It wasn’t a typical feminist blog or website, but it […]
Read More Breaking News: MEN CAN STOP RAPE!How someone can ever blame the victim of a crime for the crime is something that will never cease to astound me, yet it’s an incredibly pervasive attitude. Such victim-blaming is absurdly and horrifyingly common in cases of sexual assault and rape. Women are blamed for assault if they dress in a manner that […]
Read More Mythbustin’ Mondays: If You Were Sexually Assaulted, You Were Asking for ItOn April 4th, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan introduced their new sexual assault awareness campaign at the University of New Hampshire, which was chosen for its esteemed violence response system that includes 24-hour victim assistance. The campaign, which is intended to be implemented into K-12 schools and colleges, will […]
Read More Joe Biden Introduces Sexual Assault Awareness CampaignEman al-Obeidy (also spelled Iman Al-Obeidi), a Libyan woman who was detained by Gadahfi’s troops for two days in Tripoli, has recently revealed that, while in captivity, she was brutally gang raped by Gadahfi loyalists. As though this woman had not been through enough, when she was finally freed she was subjected to harsh, unyielding […]
Read More Quick Hit: Eman al-Obeidy speaks out about being raped by Gadhafi loyalists tonight on CNNWhile looking through my dashboard on Tumblr the other day, I came across an article called “Why I Am a Black Male Feminist” from the root.com that had been posted on a blog I follow. As I read the article’s title, it occurred to me that I had never read a piece of writing from […]
Read More Feminism From the Black Male PerspectiveOn March 4, 2007, Lauren Chief Elk and April Grolle, two members of the De Anza College soccer team, were leaving a house party when they sensed that something suspicious was going on in one of the back rooms where the door was closed and the lights were turned off. In ktvu.com‘s coverage of the […]
Read More “No Woman Left Behind”: Encouraging the Notion of Becoming an Active BystanderSo to say that I’ve been obsessed with the accusations of rape against Julian Assange and all of the rape apologism/slut shaming/blaming-the-victims which have been born out of it would be a drastic understatement. I’m pretty sure that my break has been split 50-50 between laying in bed sniffling and coughing (I simultaneously have a […]
Read More On Assange, Naomi Wolf, and progressive rape apologismAs a future teacher, I am always looking for ways to incorporate feminism into my classroom. While working on a project for one of my education classes, I stumbled across two awesome young adult novels that could help teachers and parents introduce feminist ideas to their teens. The first novel is Speak by Laurie Halse […]
Read More Introducing Feminist Thought Through Young Adult Literature(Disclaimer: Sorry this post is so late, I’ve been sick and asleep and on all sorts of meds all weekend). This weekend was Amnesty International’s awesome Violence Against Women Awareness week. I attended two events – a panel featuring All Girls Allowed, First Step, and World Hope International. The other event I attended was a talk with journalist Rana […]
Read More Get educated about violence against womenPosts by other blog members including ihavemythings and aliasmitch (as well as campus headlines about the harassment of Alpha Phi sorority members) have inspired me to write a little about sexual violence, and more specifically rape culture at JMU. Rape culture is a term used in women’s studies and by feminists to describe a culture in which rape and sexual violence against women […]
Read More Sexual Violence: The JMU Edition
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