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Prison Rape Is Not a Punch Line
How often have you heard someone chuckle about “dropping the soap”?
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Male Rape is No Joke—But Pop Culture Often Treats It That Way
From Wedding Crashers to 40 Days and 40 Nights, films often treat sexual assault of men as a punchline.
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Commander in Disbelief: A Timeline of Sexual Assault Allegations against Trump
While sexual-assault survivors take hits to their reputations, financial security, and personal safety, what do Trump and other men accused of sexual misconduct lose?
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Vivien Green Fryd Charts the Feminist Artists Who’ve Painted #MeToo for Decades
Against Our Will challenges us to witness without looking away, exploring sexual violence as a discrete subject of American art with unflinching analysis.
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#ItHappenedToUs: How Chosen Families support Queer Survivors of Sexual Assault
When I was sexually assaulted, it didn’t just happen to me, it happened to us.
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Backtalk: That’s Not Consent. That’s Capitalism.
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the newest marketing ploy around consent: condoms that require four hands to open. These kinds of throwaway, viral products commodify ideas around sexual violence without actually working to solve a problem (while hoisting the blame for sexual assault away from... Read more »
Turn Down for What: Why Media Amplifies Rape Apology
Instead of putting women in control at the heart of their own narratives, society talks around them, keeping them voiceless and powerless.
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Building Trust: #MeToo and Media’s Responsibility to Survivors
Publications need to build trust with survivors so that their stories can be told.
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Punishment Is Not Justice: Defying Definitions After Sexual Violence
We need to move beyond binary survivor-perpetrator framing.
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I Kissed Consent Goodbye: Purity Culture and Sexual Violence on Evangelical Christian Campuses
Purity is tarnished by sexual contact, regardless of circumstances, and the only recourse is to pray for a “second virginity.”
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