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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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What If We Treated Rape Like H1N1?
What if we treated rape like an actual public health crisis? Meg Stone goes into it over at Bitch. Hat tip to the ever-rad Kaveri for the link.
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under rape, rape culture.
Tags: bitch, crisis, h1h1, public health, rape, rape culture, swine flu, virus
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Newsflash: Women's Shoes Hurt, Sex feels Good, Rape is the Fault of Rapists
Sometimes, the News Media has all the answers. The New York Times reports that a recent study shows that women’s shoes hurt their feet. Women mostly have sex because “it feels good,” according to a new study reviewed on Salon.com by Tracy Clark-Flory. Also, the only sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work are those [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under rape, rapist, sex, shoes.
Tags: awareness, college, education, men, New York Times, newsflash, rape, sex, sexual assault, shoes
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What is a Trigger Warning?
Trigger warning: This post contains references to rape. Anyone who reads feminist blogs has come across “trigger warnings” before graphic images or descriptions of rape or violence to women. The intent of a trigger warning is to advertise the potentially emotionally triggering content of a piece, which might revive memories of rape or sexual assault [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under rape, rape culture, triggering.
Tags: feminism, harassment, hostility, nirvana, patsy t. mink, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, rape, sarah haskins, sexual, sexual assault, title nine, trauma, trigger, u.s. military, warning
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The Rape Index: Statistics Speak for Themselves
In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under abortion, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, sexual assault.
Tags: abortion, born-again Christians, california, Catholic Church, college, emergency contraception, evangelical Christians, Florida, genocide, harper's, HIV, incest, marriage, medical professionals, New York, Pakistan, poetry, race, rape, Rudy Giuliani, rwanda, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, socioeconomic class, statistics, three strikes
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I'll Swan for Links
This photograph is by Francesca Woodman, a fantastic feminist photographer who killed herself in her twenties several decades ago. Her work is haunting, because she treats the female form and the objectifying gaze of the camera and manages to make it beautiful. From Johannesburg, the story of Dumisani Rebombo, one rapist repenting, asking his victim’s [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under conflict resolution, feminism, feminist, objectification, politics, rape, respect.
Tags: add, adhd, alex chee, allen iverson, art, auto-tune, camera, carcinogen, china, deng yujiao, dumisani rebombo, feminism, food coloring, ford madox ford, francesca woodman, gaze, granta, harper's, harper's index, homicide, Iran, jean rhys, johannesburg, maud newton, murder, mustache, n+1, national symbol, neda agha soltan, novelist, objectification, photography, practice, rapist, repentence, sexual assault, south africa, statistical poetry, statistics, suicide, sunscreen
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A Mile In Her Shoes: Men Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2008 under Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Uncategorized, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminists have more fun, gender role, gender roles, gender theory, gender violence, heels, males, objectification, objectification of men, objectification of women, objects, protest, rape, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual objectification, sexual violence, sexuality, sexy, shoes.
Tags: demonstration, femininity, feminism, feminist, gender violence, heels, international, male feminists, march, men, men's march, parade, pumps, rape, sexism, sexual assault, sexual violence, shoes, talk the talk, violence, violence against women, walk a mile in her shoes, walk the walk
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