People.com 5.12.16 | Michael Miller Jodie Foster has an issue with male filmmakers relying on rape as a motivational backstory for their female characters. The Money Monster director brought up her frustration with the storytelling trope during Variety and Kering’s Women in Motion
Fusion 6.27.16 | Lux Alptraum Any drinker knows what it’s like to wake up after a night of boozing and think, “I hope I didn’t do anything stupid.” Chances are, at some point you have. But what happens when your actions under the
RawStory.com 5.28.16 | Tom Boggioni In a Facebook post caught by Jezebel, a woman described how she and two friends kept a total stranger from being drugged and raped by a man she identified as “one of her best friends.” Writing on Facebook,
Everyday Feminism 5.22.16 | Ellen Kate (Content Warning: sexual violence, rape culture, alcohol use) The first time I formally learned about consent was in grad school. I was training as a peer sexuality educator, and we did an exercise where we had to decide
The Frisky.com 4.5.16 | Liz Magee There are many incidents of sexual assault that go unreported. Victims that do commit to the complicated process of filing an official report are often discouraged and insulted by the initial interview. Questions like “what were you
TakePart.com 5.3.16 | Alex Janin Many Americans from all age groups still don't understand the definition of sexual consent. Paging anti–campus rape crusaders: It isn’t just college-age Americans who are confused about what it means to consent to sex. It seems pervasive “no
Huffington Post Arts and Culture 3.15.16 | Priscilla Frank During her freshman year at Wesleyan University, Karmenife Paulino was raped in the basement of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Up until her junior year, Paulino said nothing of the assault, feeling that, as a woman
Lenny 2.23.16 | Lena Dunham Lena Dunham + Lenny stand with Kesha, because we will not "accept shame and fear as the status quo." When I saw the outcome of Kesha's court case last Friday, I felt sick. Actually sick — I wanted
