As long-time readers know, I am a rape survivor and only recently began to work on healing from that long ago trauma that I had repressed for nearly two decades. […]
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Tag: Sexual Violence
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. – Charlotte Bunch
Carnival Against Sexual Violence – Edition 59 Published
Marcella Chester's Carnival Against Sexual Violence (edition 59) is out and one of my blog entries (Recap: Our Love Should Not Hurt) is featured. You can see the full list […]
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Recap: Our Love Should Not Hurt
Yesterday, I participated in a panel discussion on domestic violence and sexual assault. The event, titled "Our Love Should Not Hurt" was sponsored by the Alpha Chapters of Zeta Phi […]
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Why are female rapists a joke to Hollywood? (Trigger Warning)
Here we go again – triggered and angered by the television. I was watching one of my favorite shows – Life on Mars (new U.S. version of a BBC […]
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Raped and Not Reporting It
So much of what Megan has said in this blog entry at Jezebel and some of the comments resonate with my own experience: "…the thing is, it's great to say […]
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Bush White House: National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, 2008 Proclamation
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary October 1, 2008 National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America My Administration […]
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Per the Norm, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong On Rape
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville on "lol your ugly ": "So there's this woman, Bernann McKinney, who was recently in the news for paying to have five puppies cloned from her […]
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Things this rape survivor could do without hearing again in life…
As I've begun to unravel the tight ball of emotions related to my rape, I've been given a lot of advice, some good and some bad. Most of it is […]
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The Aftermath of Being Temporarily Owned By Another
Another excellent posting from Cara at The Curvature on Explaining Rape : The crime of rape is the imposition on another person’s body. The crime of rape is taking away […]
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Renee Martin: Male Rape
Saturday, July 19, 2008 Male Rape by Renee Martin Originally published at Womanist Musings. Yesterday I read the account of a rape victim. He wrote very eloquently about being raped by […]
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