feminisminindia.com 1.24.17 | Madhulika Agarwal Consent can be crudely understood as permission to do something. Sexual consent has been mainly restricted to ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ However, it needs to be understood that consent and especially, the sexual consent of a woman is something which is ridden
AlJazeera.com 1.24.17 Gina Benevento Eight years of progress and funding for programmes countering sexual violence against women are about to be undone. "Affirmative consent, for those who don't know, is the idea that if you don't consent at every stage of a sexual
Globe and Mail 2.5.17 | BRENDA COSSMAN Brenda Cossman is a professor of law and the director of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto It’s a problem hiding in plain sight. The Globe and Mail’s Unfounded series documents
ThinkProgress 1.16.17 | By Perpetual Baffour and Ulrich Boser Betsy DeVos’ family foundation has long donated to organizations that side with students accused of rape — not their victims. Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Michigan billionaire and philanthropist Betsy DeVos, has kept fairly silent on
**Editor's Note: We love the work Vice President Biden has done on behalf of stopping campus sexual assault. We hope he continues to be a leading voice for our cause. We were also honored to receive this letter of support for our own
The Register-Guard 12.23.16 | Jack Moran The University of Oregon may appeal a judge’s ruling that overturned a one-year suspension the UO imposed on a male student after university officials concluded he had sexually assaulted a young woman in his dorm room in
Washington Post 12.21.16 | Carolyn Hax Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: There’s been a lot of public discussion surrounding sexual assault lately, and one thing I keep reading/hearing is, “We need to teach our sons not to rape.” Do they mean
The Debrief 12.27.16 | Kate Lloyd The Debrief: For every step forward we take in understanding consent and sexual assault, we take two steps back. But how much actually changed this year? ‘Grab them by the pussy’: five words which will, depressingly, forever
