Mother Jones 10.31.16| Samantha Michaels Yes, you read that right. Cleopatra Harrison had large, dark bruises on her neck and scratches on her chest when she met the police at an apartment in Columbus, Georgia, in June. The night before, she told them,
Jezebel.com 9.8.16 | Stassa Edwards In an op-ed for the Harvard Crimson, an anonymous rape survivor writes of her alleged attack on the university’s campus and its subsequent aftermath. “Harvard could have helped me afterwards,” she writes, “and they didn’t.” She points to
Cosmopolitan 8.23.16 | Jillian Keenan How could it be legal for multiple Houston, Texas, emergency rooms to refuse Dinisha Ball a rape kit? The complicated, infuriating, little-known reasons why women can be denied emergency care after a sexual assault. Dinisha Ball and her
Buzzfeed 8.26.16 | Katie J.M. Baker Judge Aaron Persky, under fire for his sentencing of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, delayed sentencing for a domestic violence offender so he could play football in Hawaii. “They made it easy for him,” the victim told
Text of the Bill Can be found here: California Assembly Bill 2888 The Cut 8.30.16 | Charley Lanyon Brock Turner, the 20-year-old Stanford student who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman behind a dumpster in January last year, will be released from prison
The Cut 8.26.16 | Claire Landsbaum Back in April, David Becker, then a senior at East Longmeadow High School in Massachusetts, was accused of sexually assaulting two classmates while they were unconscious. According to court documents, he was arraigned in Palmer District Court on
Vice Canada 8.17.16 | Manisha Krishnan After she said she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance, Stephanie Stella went home and looked up an article on consent she recalled reading when she was younger. "I posted it on my Facebook," with the note,
Register-Star 8.16.16 | Katie Kocijanski The New York State Police have launched a new campaign to raise awareness about campus sexual assault. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the new campaign on Aug. 8, the police’s Campus Sexual Assault Victims Unit will be reaching out
