1 in 5 women experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime. This shouldn’t come as a shock. Our feeds are filled with headlines like Larry Nassar Among the 20,000 Individuals Removed from Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry and Cornell fraternity rape case will be reopened after woman said she was raped for hours by multiple […]
Read More The Never-Ending Lack of Accountability for MenOne show that has all the fixings for a great but silly story…BUT, there’s a big elephant in the room we need to talk about.
Read More Bridgerton, Great Show…But Problematic*Warning this article talks about sexual assault and rape and it may be triggering for some readers* When a woman wants to have a drink or two, they should not have to live in fear that they are going to be raped. Across the globe, but particularly America, drunk women often are assault or rape, […]
Read More Women get Rape because of RapistIf you are here reading “Shoutout!”, chances are you consider yourself a feminist. Or maybe you don’t like labels, but you do believe that regardless of gender or sex, everybody deserves equal opportunities- especially those who have been historically and institutionally oppressed. Regardless, like any movement, Feminism has a lot of jargon and topics that […]
Read More Feminism 101: A Beginners Guide to Feminist TerminologyTrigger 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 2016Wannabeaudre is back at it with another sexual assault article. Fun stuff, right? How can I not write another piece while April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Also, as long as 1 in 5 women are getting assaulted throughout their lifetime, I am not staying silent. Anyways, I am going to be highlighting four documentaries about sexual […]
Read More For Your Viewing Pleasure: SAAM EditionSo there’s this story. It hasn’t been told much, at least this specific one hasn’t, but it begs to be told. It begs to be heard because it’s like so many other stories. It was the summer before her senior year of high school. Summer in the suburbs with short shorts, bonfires, and house parties. […]
Read More That Summer Night: A Story Kept Under SheetsA twelve-year-old girl pregnant from rape by her mother’s boyfriend. A fifteen-year-old high school student who would be forced by her parents to carry her unintended pregnancy to term. Desperate and terrified girls living in a state with less than twenty abortion clinics. These are the beginnings of their stories. These are the stories we […]
Read More Abortion Stories: The Personal is PoliticalSunday night, beloved celebrities took to the red carpet for the Academy Awards. Chris Rock hosted and provided laughs and jokes that criticized the Academy and the lack of people of color as nominees. He also let his daughters sell Girl Scout cookies to the audience. It was a fun night filled with excitement and […]
Read More Why Lady Gaga Won the OscarsSexual assault is something people don’t like talking about. It’s not a fun or nice topic. But the fact is that 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives and 1 in 2 transgendered individuals will be sexually abused or assaulted at some point in […]
Read More Sexual Assault: Let’s Get Some Things Straight