Don’t walk alone at night. Carry your keys in between your fingers. Always have pepper spray. Pretend you’re on the phone. Look over your shoulder. Always listen. Notice a pattern? Do you see an underlying theme? It’s not just, “Don’t walk alone at night.” The implication is, “YOU shouldn’t be walking alone at night.” Although […]
Read More A Re-Examination of Self-DefenseTrigger Warning: This post does contain details and description of sexual assault It’s Italy in 1992, an 18 year old girl is picked up for her first driving lesson by her 45 year-old driving instructor. He then proceeds to drive her to an isolated road, pulled her out of the car, wrestled her out of her […]
Read More Denim, Denim, Denim: Denim Day 2016I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten emails from campus police or the local police department of reported sexual assaults, and not until recently did I ever stop and think about how common situations like those are in the world that I live in; college. College is a world that is short-lived compared […]
Read More College…and rape.Check out this article on the “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign in Canada, where ads targeting “average joe” potential rapists explain in convenient one-liners that non-consensual sex is assault, and SEXUAL ASSAULT RATES DECREASED BY TEN PERCENT. And here is the website for the campaign! They even have a much needed focus on same-gender sexual […]
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