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The Reckoning: Rape Culture and the Crisis in British Schools

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?”

Posted inBooks, Crime, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Writing

‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students

by Seyward Darby April 30, 2021October 19, 2022

The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.

Posted inBusiness, Crime, Current Events, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction

The Silencing of #MeToo Reporting in Germany

by Seyward Darby January 28, 2021October 19, 2022

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Buying Myself Back

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 16, 2020October 19, 2022

Emily Ratajkowski writes an essay on celebrity, objectification, and consent. “I’ve become more familiar with seeing myself through the paparazzi’s lenses than I am with looking at myself in the mirror. And I have learned that my image, my reflection, is not my own.”

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 23, 2020October 19, 2022

A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.

Posted inEditor's Pick

I Know How to Cover a Portland Protest. So Why Am I Shaking?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 22, 2020October 19, 2022

Journalist Karina Brown, who’s covering the protests in Portland, writes a personal essay on trauma, sexual assault, and police violence.

Posted inNonfiction

Menace Too Society

by Soraya Roberts January 22, 2020December 30, 2022

Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.

Posted inNonfiction

Seedy

by Elizabeth Logan Harris December 19, 2019December 30, 2022

Elizabeth Logan Harris recalls an incident in ’70s-era Radio City Music Hall when unwanted attention to her teenage body put her in league with her father.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, History, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’

by Zan Romanoff November 19, 2019January 13, 2023

Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

Same Sh*itty Media Men, Different Day

by Sari Botton October 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.

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