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• Women as Targets of Misogyny, Literally (Trigger Warning)

  
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  Cross-posted at The Ethical Adman . So it turns out there’s this company that makes  “zombie” targets  for gun enthusiasts. They have clown zombies, nazi zombies, “ terrorist ” zombies, dog zombies and even a green zombie named “ Rocky ” that has Barack Obama’s ears. And  one woman . ...
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• Independent women

  
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  When I found out that I was pregnant I felt sorely close to falling into the trenches of a “black stereotype”. I already had no man and no job, all I needed was a Standard 8 qualification, a monthly government social grant, a mkhukhu (RDP house still pending), and I would have been well on...
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• Book Review Symposium – Geraldine Pratt’s ‘Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love’

  
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  This symposium brings together a group of scholars to discuss Prof. Geraldine Pratt’s monograph Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). The book is grounded in a collaboration between Prof. Pratt and the Philippine Women’s Centre of British ...
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• Jackson Katz on feminism and men

  
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  Very good talk on men and feminism by Jackson Katz at a TEDx on women. He needs to slow down and take a breath, but in general this is fantastic.
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• Watch This Video With the Man In Your Life

  
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  Excellent TedX presentation about why we need men to use their status to speak out against and challenge gender violence. The post Watch This Video With the Man In Your Life appeared first on Hello Ladies .
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• Occidental College Faculty Vote “No Confidence” in High Level Administrators

  
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  Cross-posted at BlogHer . At about 1:00 Monday, a quorum of the Occidental Faculty overwhelmingly voted No Confidence in the campus attorney, Carl Botterud, and the Dean of Students, Barbara Avery. I was among the faculty in attendance. The votes are in response to a belief that these high-level Occidental ...
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• TED Talk: Violence & Silence – Jackson Katz on Gender Violence

  
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  Excellent TEDx talk on Gender Violence and why it’s a men’s issue by Jackson Katz. Why you should listen to Jackson Katz: Jackson Katz, Phd, is an anti-sexist activist and expert on violence, media and masculinities. An author, filmmaker, educator and social theorist, Katz has worked in gender violence ...
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• Verbal Consent to Sex and The Vampire Diaries

  
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  Research has shown that college students largely think that asking for sexual consent — “Do you want to have sex?” — “ruins the mood.”  This is partly because it violates their sexual script, the norms and expectations that guide sexual encounters. If explicit consent violates the sexual script, then ...
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• Afghanistan: young woman killed in front of 300 - Stop Violence against Women

  
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  Members of Afghan activist group Young Women for Change/copyright AP Enough!  Stop violence against women in Afghanistan.
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• From “Anti-Rape Underwear” in India to Sexual Harassment in Australia: Social Complicity in “Rape Culture”

  
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  By Zuleyka Zevallos, PhD . Trigger Warning: Rape. Via Won’t Stop Til We Surrender A couple of weeks a go, a new, so-called “anti-rape” underwear device got quite a bit of international attention. It was invented by a team of Indian students,  including two women . The device was designed to give ...
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• Law & Order Quotes Actual Rape Survivors, Calls Itself “Fiction”

  
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  Cross-posted at The Huffington Post . This is a new one. Some of you may know that there is a wave of colleges and universities filing complaints with the Office for Civil Rights , claiming that their institutions are failing to protect women from sexual assault. This (first) wave includes Amherst, Yale, the ...
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• How Friendship Can Help End Rape

  
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  Cross-posted at PolicyMic . Let me ask you a question: Do you have a good friend of the opposite sex? Odds are you do. In fact, the odds are overwhelming. When I first began teaching, 25 or so years ago, I asked my students how many of them had a good friend of the opposite sex. About 10% said they did. The ...
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• How Friendship Can Help End Rape

  
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  Cross-posted at PolicyMic . Let me ask you a question: Do you have a good friend of the opposite sex? Odds are you do. In fact, the odds are overwhelming. When I first began teaching, 25 or so years ago, I asked my students how many of them had a good friend of the opposite sex. About 10% said they did. The ...
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• “The truth is, ‘Ngiyesaba’ – I’m shit scared” – Rape and Traumatic Recall

  
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  TRIGGER WARNING…… “ Homophobic Injustice and Corrective Rape in Post-Apartheid South Africa ” by Kylie Thomas – a joint report by the University of Western Cape and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. The report offers a critique of the terms ‘ corrective rape’ and ‘curative ...
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