All posts tagged "sexual assault"
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The First White Amerikkkan Man
By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been a fairly simple proposition: Groom them aggressively, taking a little more each time,...
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Trauma and Infinities: How Math Sharpened My Feminism
By Jamie Zabinsky On one of my 90-minute train commutes this summer, I came across a post in my beloved ‘weird Facebook’ group that pulled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where Flowers Can Grow
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
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On Moving Forward
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
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Oh, to Be Free Again: Love, Accountability & Bodily Integrity in Response to Child Sexual Abuse
For more than two decades, I have worked in various ways to heal the wounds inflicted upon me so many years ago—from working and organizing...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Request for Representation (or Why I Said “No” to Nightline)
By Charmaine Daboiku The email said “ABC News/Nightline Request for Info” in the subject line. I thought it was spam, and I almost deleted it....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, If College Heterosexual, Cis Men were Raped More than Everyone Else
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
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Stronger Than You Know
By J.B. My rapist didn’t look like a monster. He was a six-foot, brown-haired, 25-year-old working at a startup, with dark eyes, a trace of stubble,...
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A State of Rage (for Toni Cade Bambara)
I am tired of the silences that have been imposed on us. Shhhhh. Black women and girls. I am tired of the silences that we, Black...
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Don’t Get Caught Sleeping: Male Desire of Unconscious Women
We all argued and it was mostly about their insistence that I had called my godbrother a rapist. They made the most compelling arguments about...
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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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Personal is Political: On Impact We
LieDieI was in 9th grade, 14, at the start of this story, 5 years past my first period, past my first training bra, and a...
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Feminists We Love: Wagatwe Wanjuki
Wagatwe Wanjuki is a feminist activist working and living in the New York City area. She uses new media tools to advance social justice. You can...
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Personal is Political: On Misconceived Toxicity, Malice and Failures
I really didn’t mean to participate in an act of solidarity with other women who had past and current relationships with the man who raped...
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Feminists We Love: Farah Tanis
Farah Tanis is a transnational feminist and human rights activist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Organization Black Women’s Blueprint. She...
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Feminists We Love: Zerlina Maxwell (Video)
Zerlina Maxwell holds a JD from the Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in International Relations and Affairs from Tufts University. Over the...
