End Your Community’s Rape Kit Backlog
**Trigger warning: This blog post discusses rape and the problems surrounding the rape kit backlog** Imagine that you have just experienced an incredibly traumatizing and horrific experience – you were...
View ArticleDisgusting UVM Fraternity Questionnaire Sparks Outrage
Cross-post by Sarah M from the SAFER Campus blog Today finds me crawling out of blog hibernation to point ya’ll to the latest installment of “College Boys Just Want to Have Fun…By Demeaning Women and...
View ArticleSexual Assault: What’s So Funny?
As president of the University of Maryland’s Feminists for Sexual Health club and a soon-to-be campus sexual assault prevention peer educator, my senior year is going to be dominated by one question:...
View ArticleChallenging the Rape Schedule
As countless young adults head off to college, they will be bombarded with warnings about potential incidents of sexual assault on their campus. As many of us know, these concerns are valid – women...
View Article10 Things That Are Funnier Than Rape Jokes
Ah, yes. Rape jokes. A subject that, as Lindy West demonstrates, you can’t critically discuss in public without spurring rape threats. Something so pervasive that people can’t differentiate between...
View ArticleSlut-Shaming and Victim Blaming: One and The Same
I was enjoying a lazy afternoon on Sunday, laying in bed with my poodle and reading Lean In, when my iPhone buzzed and alerted me to a text message. It was one of my oldest friends from high school,...
View ArticleWe Need To Hear Women’s Voices: Sexual Violence in a Revolution
At least 91 women have been sexually assaulted since last week as part of Egypt’s ongoing protests. It is not the first time that women were sexually assaulted in Egypt, or even at protests in any...
View ArticleEnd Rape on Campus: Be A Part of ED ACT NOW!
A petition is now circulating on Change.org to urge Secretary Arne Duncan and the U.S. Department of Education to “enforce students’ civil right to freedom from sexual violence.” On Monday, July 15th,...
View Article“Don’t Be That Girl” Campaign Brings Victim-Blaming, Slut-Shaming to Canadian...
The University of Alberta campus was shocked this week when the “Men’s Rights Group” of Edmonton, Canada launched a “Don’t be that girl” poster campaign in direct retaliation to the successful “Don’t...
View ArticleRecap and Gallery: Interns and Staff Demand Justice at #EdActNow
College students and recent graduates delivered more than 100,000 signatures to the Department of Education yesterday demanding federal officials to follow through on complaints regarding how...
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