By now, you’ve probably either seen or heard of this video: In the video (which was commissioned by Hollaback, an anti-street harassment advocacy group), Shoshana Roberts walks through various neighborhoods in New York for ten hours, following filmmaker Rob Bliss, who had a camera hidden in his backpack. By her definition, which is the only one that matters here, Shoshana […]
Rape culture is one of the biggest human rights issues facing us. It’s a global problem, and we see stories in the news every day where rape culture and the sexism that fosters it bring tragedy into women’s lives. MNgranny’s written numerous articles about it and the impact on society, and sometimes we despair of ever […]
Rape is a global problem. It is not going to disappear from all cultures and societies. It is a part of oppression meant to control, humiliate and destroy its victims. Too many times, people who are entrusted with the care of vulnerable children or adults are the perpetrators of this crime. The priests in our […]
These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in Louisiana. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Kelley Fanto Deetz, University of California, Berkeley Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation is the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. […]
As evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and research reinterprets this as ‘transactional sex’, through the logic of colonialism. By Guilaine Kinouani. Published 11-25-2016 by openDemocracy A few months ago, the campaign #predatorypeacekeepers started on social media. It followed a report from a Canadian AIDS charity accusing UN […]
Once again, men in Washington think they are more knowledgeable about the realities of rape than the victims who survive the crime. In the continuation to oppress women and promote rape culture by blaming the victim, 164 people, 93% of them men, are supporting H.R.7, a bill that would require the IRS to audit rape […]
On Friday, September 19, The Guardian reported that a Texas court “has upheld the constitutional right of Texans to photograph strangers as an essential component of freedom of speech – even if those images should happen to be surreptitious “upskirt” pictures of women taken for the purposes of sexual gratification.” Once again, a court rules […]
“I feel that he’s earned a second chance.” That’s what Steubenville High football coach Reno Saccoccia has to say about his decision to welcome convicted rapist Ma’lik Richmond back to his team. The facts of the Steubenville rape case in 2012 were already horrendous. A teenage girl was repeatedly and publicly sexually assaulted by boys […]
Last week, between 20 and 30 teenage girls in the Labrador and Newfoundland provinces of Canada were sent home from school for wearing sleeveless shirts that exposed their bra straps. Emily Connors, one of the girls, told CBC News that the girls were told it was “because of our bra straps, and that it was inappropriate because […]
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair has reached a plea bargain deal with prosecutors, meaning the sexual assault charges against him have been dropped in exchange for pleading guilty to lessor charges. The result will mean he does not have to register as a sex offender and he is still able to retire with benefits from the […]