No Smugness Like Brand New Advocate Smugness
LOL, my inner dialogue nearly every time some netizen who likely didn’t even exist when I began my advocacy career in the early 1990s just MUST ‘splain my own areas of expertise to me...
Tagged: Sexual Violence
Victim Blaming Hall of Shame – Part One
Taking back some power by calling out victim-blamers and shamers I’ve personally encountered over the years. Obviously, this will be a triggering and upsetting collection. Feel free to share. People still say this doesn’t...
Stop Being Surprised by Female Perpetrators, ‘kay?
Kim Severson, writing for The New York Times, on Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser: …last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy...
Coalition Letter on Conference Committee for CAA Reform
June 8, 2018 View a PDF of this letter. Recipient: U.S. House of Representatives Dear Speaker Ryan and Leader Pelosi: We urge you to seek the appointment of a Conference Committee on the Congressional...
Coalition Letter to U.S. Senate on CAA Reform Act
May 23, 2018 Hon. Mitch McConnell Majority Leader United States Senate S-230 Capitol Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Hon. Chuck Schumer Minority Leader United States Senate S-221 Capitol Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Re: Congressional Accountability...
Coalition Letter to Senate Leadership on Sexual Harassment Reform
March 19, 2018 Hon. Mitch McConnell Majority Leader U.S. Senate 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Hon. Charles Schumer Minority Leader U.S. Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear...
Coalition Letter on H.R. 4396, the ME TOO Congress Act
January 19, 2018 Hon. Paul Ryan Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives 1233 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Hon. Nancy Pelosi Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives 233 Cannon House Office Building Washington,...
Don’t Be Such A Cry-Baby (or Toxic Masculinity Is Only Part of the Picture)
June Gruber, Jessica L. Borelli for Scientific American on “The Importance of Fostering Emotional Diversity in Boys“: As early as infancy, boys’ and girls’ emotional landscape differs. One study reported that when watching an infant being...
Ally Competency 101
If your first response to hearing a male survivor’s public story is, “he won’t get asked what he is wearing”, you are not an ally. You’re an abusive asshole with a severe empathy deficit....
Readout of Sexual Assault Briefing Before Military Personnel Subcommittee
READOUT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT BRIEFING BEFORE MILITARY PERSONNEL SUBCOMMITTEE Sep 28, 2017 Press Release House Committee on Armed Services WASHINGTON – Today, the Military Personnel Subcommittee received a briefing from the U.S. Army on actions...