Still reeling from Todd Akin’s cringe-worthy claims about “legitimate rape,” the world gets to see rape being trivialized, yet again and again. In a sound bite from a 2011 interview which has recently garnered a lot of attention, Representative…
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Did you know that there’s slavery still going on today? There’s human trafficking going on around the world, including in the U.S. This modern day slavery happens when people control others and use them to profit from their services—usually sexual.…
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In October 2011, Grace Brown, a student at New York School of Visual Arts, started a project she calls “Project Unbreakable,” a photo blog that shows sexual abuse and assault victims holding up signs of quotes from their abusers and […]
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This past January, the United States Justice Department announced that the legal definition of rape will be changing—meaning that, for the first time, men can also be considered victims of rape. It seems incredible that it has taken until now […]
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One weekend I went to a soccer game by myself. Sure, I knew some of the people there, but I really didn’t feel all that safe in a crowd of strangers. I had my phone on me. Wouldn’t it be […]
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In a 2005 poll, what percentage of people said that a woman was partially or totally responsible for being raped if she was drunk? The answer? A whopping (and appalling) 28 percent. This is one of the questions and answers […]
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