Tag: sexual assault

We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.

Or will Democrats sell out Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, too?

Growing up, Niya Marie sought refuge in Whitney Houston’s ethereal notes; as an adult, Marie found recognition in her silences.

An MRI sparked gymnast Selena Brennan’s interest in sports medicine, and Larry Nassar isn’t going to take that away from her.

A robust local media is important to rooting out corruption, but so is a well-informed electorate.

The aftermath of trauma sometimes means that victims become victimizers, but we have to find a way to talk about it.

After an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.

Actor Brendan Fraser reveals he was touched inappropriately — and says it’s behind why he vanished from the scene for more than a decade.

How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.

The New York Times investigates ongoing sexual harassment and misconduct at Ford.

What do you need to do to have a consensual, romantic work relationship? The same things that make any workplace respectful and considerate.

“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.

Bumbles sink. (Hopefully.) On men, sexual violence, and feigned ignorance.

Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously.

Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.

The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.

We are finally taking sexual harassment and abuse seriously. Now what?

On Harvey Weinstein, a man whose grave I can’t wait to dance on.

First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.

In this oral history, a produce truck driver and former lettuce worker recounts the sexual harassment she faced while working in the fields of Salinas Valley, California.

The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.

At Cosmopolitan, Jillian Keenan reports on Dinisha Ball’s nightmare experience of being denied rape kits in more than one ER, for both legally invalid and “valid” reasons, after being drugged and sexually assaulted in Houston.

In the New Yorker, memoirist Mary Karr recounts a recent, casual sexual assault by a “crotchgrabber” on the street in Manhattan.

Anne Thériault, on The Belle Jar, traces a lifetime of gendered violence, assault, harassment, and threats starting at age six in this brutal but important read.

A late-night encounter with a drunken classmate is at the beginning of many college sexual assault stories. But in the one Gracie Ryan tells, the woman—a third-degree taekwondo black belt—feels uncomfortable, gets up, and leaves.

This week, Wesleyan University administrators banned social events at a fraternity through the end of 2015. This rule came some months after the school decreed that all recognized fraternities must become co-educational within the next three years.”

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UCLA’s Daily Bruin published a comprehensive package about sexual assault on campus just days after the White House released a report outlining procedural guidelines for colleges to follow when dealing with such cases. In her thorough story about UCLA’s policies and procedures, Kate Parkinson-Morgan explains the intricacies of Title IX, the Clery Act, and other […]

"Patrick Henry College is not alone in internally adjudicating sexual assault. Every college and university maintains its own shadow legal system—and many secular colleges have a terrible track record of investigating and punishing sexual assault. But Patrick Henry College is one of only four private colleges in the United States that eschews federal funds in […]