Rape, Trauma, and Terrorism
Jessica Stern had an incredible op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday. Stern is a noted expert on terrorism and national security, and is a lecturer at Harvard and served on Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. But in her piece yesterday, she talks about the violent rape she was a victim of in 1973 – and [...]
...read morePTSD and Healing After Sexual Trauma
This post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Before I really get started, this is a piece about how you, a rape survivor, can regain a sense of wellness after the fact. This is neither a professionally nor universally designed plan of action to combat PTSD or heal one’s [...]
...read moreLots of potential, but not sitting right with me.
Here’s an article from the BBC entitled “Police team up for rape campaign”. I am doubtless not the only one to have read enough articles with similar titles to now be approaching this one with trepidation. One would hope that an article with such a title would be about police putting together an anti-sexual violence [...]
...read moreNo More Rape By Contract
Senator Al Franken passed a major piece of legislation today, a major warning for the defense contractors hired by the U.S. government and their disregard for their female employees. It’s notable that all women in the Senate, Democrat and Republican, voted in favor of the amendment while thirty Republican men voted against it. In 2005, [...]
...read moreGetting Over It
[Trigger warning. Any and all rape apology will be deleted from this thread.] I’ve been skeptical about the efficacy of trigger warnings in the past, but after reading post after post on the Polanski case on the blogs, and seeing the story cycle through news media hour after hour, and hearing the story discussed by [...]
...read moreStephen Moyer on Vampire Sex: Masculinity in True Blood
The following quote is from Stephen Moyer AKA vampire Bill compton in the series True Blood. Epilogue: Stephen Moyer, on Vampire Sex: “The thing about vampirism is that it taps into a female point of view – you have an old-fashioned gentleman with manners who is a fucking killer… it’s an interesting duality, because in [...]
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