Trigger Warnings: Bullying Suicide Over winter break, I read a very interesting book, targeted towards young adults, called Thirteen Reason Why by Jay Asher, published in 2007. It touches on many different subjects that I feel really need to be brought up more in our society. This novel hits on many important issues that people […]
Read More Thirteen Reasons Why – Book ReviewSo, I know that it seems obvious that sexism could rear its ugly head anywhere at anytime; but I found it extremely surprising to encounter it yesterday while playing the nerdiest online card game, Dominion. To preface the “situation,” maybe I should take the time to explain the game to the non-nerds in the house. […]
Read More Has Patriarchy Really Infested Every Area of Life?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 ItOppression can only survive in silence. Make your voice heard! Sister Speak is now accepting new members and/or submissions for our Spring 2010 issue. Have you ever been publicly harassed because of your race, class, gender, age, or sexual orientation? Help us raise awareness to the JMU community that these incidences are NOT isolated, they […]
Read More Sister Speak wants YOU!Posts 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 EditionAfter a week long writer’s block, it was only the night before my post was scheduled that a paper I did my freshman year come to mind. I ponder over of why I never thought to use this for a blog before, but as I think more and more, this topic was hard for me […]
Read More 1 in 4I was going to write about something completely different for my post today, but after reading Katie O’s piece on sexual harassment in the workplace, I feel compelled to talk about my experiences as well. It is so disheartening that after reading Katie O’s post, my immediate reaction was “Oh…yup, me too!” It’s just a […]
Read More I Feel Ya, Katie O.: Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
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