October 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Renee of Womanist Musings, Melissa of Shakesville, and Cara of The Curvature talk about rape culture on the womanistmusings podcast.
A columnist at the Brown University Daily Herald has a great editorial this week discussing the realities of sexual assault in light of all of the recent rampant rape apologism in the media (re: Polanski). Check it out.
Amanda at The Sexist takes on the victim-blaming going on at George Washington University.
On October 23, the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center will be hosting a full day CLE on “Defending Sex Workers, People Profiled as Sex Workers, and Victims of Trafficking.” Check out the info at the NOW-NYS’s Young Feminist Task Force.
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
An article in the Brown U paper describes a “new” study that has found that alcohol consumption increases sexual assault risk. The article is careful to say that victim-blaming is bad, which it is, but can we have a conversation about the “It’s not her fault, even if she was drinking, but she shouldn’t have been drinking because she was making herself vulnerable…” comments that abound in coverage of sexual assault? Either it is her fault or it isn’t. You can’t say, “it isn’t her fault, but ladies, let’s keep ourselves safe by watching how much we drink.” I’m having trouble clairfying this thought for myself, I just know this article triggered some frustration for me in terms of victim-blaming!
