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

Rewire.com 2.3.17 | Ally Boguhn A spokesperson for Liberty University suggested to Reuters that Jerry Falwell Jr. hoped to chip away at regulations affecting colleges and universities, including rules on investigating and reporting campus sexual assault. Jerry Falwell Jr., the evangelical president of Liberty

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

Broadly.com 1.8.17 | Sophie Saint Thomas For years, women have been getting tattoos as a means to heal from personal trauma. When Marti was 18 years old, she was raped by multiple men at a frat party. She was a virgin. "It happened

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