End Of Guest Blogging and Parting Advice From A Rape Survivor
Thanks to Jill for inviting me here and thanks to everyone else who makes Feministe successful. My 2 weeks of guest blogging ends today and the days have passed quickly thanks to those who commented on my posts. I don’t always agree and sometimes discussions can get heated, but I appreciate all those who want to eliminate sexual and gender violence [...]
...read moreFalse Rape Investigation Model: Between Belief And Disbelief
The following comment might seem to some people to be advocating for genuine fairness because of the tone of the comment, but even before I found out that the author of this comment posts at a blog called The False Rape Society, I knew it came from a rape denialist. Archivist has left a new [...]
...read moreComplete Investigations Used As Justification To Not Have Complete Investigations
Yesterday at my home blog, Abyss2hope, I blogged about a rape case where the woman who was originally viewed as the victim was charged after forensic evidence indicated self-inflicted wounds rather than a stranger assault as she claimed. Today I read about a new case where another woman who reported rape faces similar charges as [...]
...read moreMan Arraigned In Rape Case Where DNA Cleared Another Man
From Boston.com: The DNA that had cleared Anthony Powell, 38, of Boston of rape eventually led prosecutors to Jerry Dixon, 35, who was arraigned yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court in the same rape case, along with one other. [...] In 2004, investigators searched an FBI database that linked four unsolved Boston rape cases but did [...]
...read moreBush Administration Promotes Discriminatory Practices Related To Birth Control
From the New York Times: The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. [...] The proposal, which circulated in the department on Monday, says the [...]
...read moreVictims Partly To Blame For Nurse’s 20 Year Pattern Of Sexual Abuse?
From the BBC: David Britten, 54, a former manager at the Peter Dally Clinic in Pimlico, central London, preyed on patients over a 20-year period. Claims by patients of sexual misconduct emerged after his dismissal from the clinic in 2002 over unrelated issues. The NHS launched an inquiry in 2006 into how he escaped detection.[...] [...]
...read moreCarnival Against Sexual Violence
The latest edition of the Carnival Against Sexual Violence is out now, please check it out. If you know of any post which you feel should have been included but wasn’t, please nominate it for the next edition.
...read moreLinguistics And Meaning Of “Why Did She Stay?”
In response to Feministe: Why did she stay? which I commented on here there is a post Rambling On: Feminist language, where Lottie writes: My perspective, is that feminists typically blacklist questions that they don’t have answers to. Why do victims of domestic violence stay? There isn’t a nice, neat, blanket response to that. Domestic [...]
...read moreMarcella Chester Guest Blogger
Thanks to Jill for inviting me to be a guest blogger on Feministe for the next 2 weeks. My name is Marcella Chester and I’ve been blogging about sexual violence and related issues at Abyss2hope: A rape survivor’s zigzag journey into the open for over 2 years now. Because of my experiences and the gendered nature of most [...]
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