Appearance =/= Consent
A demoralizing aspect of being a survivor in the media are trolls. This is a photo of me, taken less than a year after I was raped in 1990. When I was interviewed by...
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Blocking and Unblocking is Creepy ASF
Lol, there is an extremely toxic female figure within MST advocacy circles who has done this to me several times over the last 9 years. She told me that because I was raped by...
MAGA Reality Freakouts Are So Fetch
Fragile, whiny conservatives have the weirdest flexes. Dudes, welcome to how regular folks in the real world are already treated.
Bob Good Wants to Spy on Your Children
Michael Pope, writing for WVTF on One Virginia congressman wants to put cameras into classrooms: Congressman Bob Good is a Republican who represents central Virginia, and he says parents deserve to know what’s happening...
Music Break: Cowpunk Time
One of my favorite lil weird musical subgenres is cowpunk, an odd off-shoot from the SoCal post-punk scene in the late 70s and 80s. Maria McKee and Lone Justice were my favorites from this...
Music Break: Divinyls
Ah, Saturday off. Iced tea, bowl of crock pot chili. Listening to the inimitable Chrissy Amphlett and Divynls while doing website database work.
Sympathy for the Rapist
As soon as people learned that my rapist was a woman, they crawled out from under rocks to tell me that I “owed” my rapist compassion because she “must’ve been abused herself”. They are...
Calling it Rape is Progress
When I started doing advocacy work on female predators back in 2008, it was SOOOOOOOOOOOO RARE to see a woman’s sexual violence crimes described as rape in the media…or anywhere. Trained and credentialed victim...