violence
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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The “Claws” Effect: “Good Girls” Is More Than a Guilty Pleasure
These women are more concerned about paying their mortgages, caring for their children, and fighting complicated custody battles than facing consequences.
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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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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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Here, Now, Everywhere: Deborah E. Lipstadt’s new book charts the resurgence of antisemitism
Lipstadt’s uncompromising perspective is guaranteed to leave readers uneasy, no matter where they lie on the political spectrum.
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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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#ChurchToo: The Toxicity of Christian Complementarianism
The church’s views on sex entrench the power dynamics that contribute to the abuse of women (and the abuse of people of color and queer folks.)
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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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Gray Matters: How Rape in Pop Culture Became a Matter of Opinion
Time and again, we refuse to believe that people who commit sexual violence specifically get off on the lack of consent, casting them instead as “good boys” confounded by the complex rules of dating in our modern world.
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