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linkMar 25, 2013 1:40 pm
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photoMar 19, 2013 12:33 am
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photosetFeb 14, 2013 3:05 pm
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photoFeb 11, 2013 6:14 pm
We’re rising with V-Day and One Billion Rising. Why? Well dang, it just doesn’t seem like there’s any good reason not to.
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photoJan 27, 2013 3:06 pm
This is on the front page of my school’s newspaper. Someone wrote this on the steps of one of our buildings.
The full message says, “My rapist still goes here… will someone please listen to me?”
The university erased the message above shortly after it was discovered. Students and faculty replaced it with, “We expect to work on a campus that supports victims. We will listen!” and several faculty signed their names afterwards.
The VP of student affairs tried to explain why they removed the message. I don’t believe that “trashy” was the correct choice of words.
“Whatever was up there should have been cleaned. It’s not an issue of what we should take down or leave up,” he said. “They were asked to freshen up anywhere there was a chalking done, and it was starting to look a little trashy.”
The chalked message on the Doudna steps regarding sexual assault was scrubbed out, yet older messages, such as one about a past blood drive, were still visible.
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linkJan 25, 2013 11:16 am
PETITION: Change the outdated definition of "rape" in state laws!
Under current North Carolina law, the definition of “rape” is extremely narrow. It only includes those who engage in “vaginal intercourse” with another person by force and against the will of the other person and “employs or displays a dangerous or deadly weapon”.
This outdated definition fails to cover many types of sexual violence that should fall under the category of “rape”. It excludes rapes involving forced anal sex and/or oral sex, vaginal or anal fisting, rape with an object (even if serious injuries result), rapes of men and transgender people and other injurious and degrading sexual assaults.
As well, because the definition requires a deadly weapon, this excludes those who were intimidated or coerced in to engaging in sexual activity and those who were otherwise unable to give consent, such as by being unconscious or under the influence of alcohol.
In January 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation expanded the definition of rape to “the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim”.
We ask the North Carolina General Assembly to follow in their footsteps and expand the legal definition of “rape”.
***** State Representative Verla Insko has responded to this petition, stating that she would share it with her colleagues in the NC House! To ensure that this change occurs, it’s now VERY IMPORTANT that this petition gets as many signatures and comments as soon as possible. Sign the petition now! *****
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photosetJan 20, 2013 6:55 pm
3 Photos That Will Finally Help Us Retire The ‘She Was Asking For It’ Defense: This was a terrible and weak argument from the get-go. Let’s put an end to its use. Images all found on Pinterest. If you know who owns the first two, please let us know.
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linkJan 13, 2013 12:33 pm
The Awful Lie That's Been Told About Men Since Pretty Much The Dawn Of Time
All that victim blaming kinda backfired on you guys, didn’t it? Share this to spread the truth.
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linkJan 09, 2013 12:33 pm
This Rape Infographic Is Going Viral. Too Bad It's Wrong.
Yesterday, under the headline, “The saddest graph you’ll see today,” Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post published this infographic created by the Enliven Project to put the legal issues around rape, its prosecutions, and concerns about false accusations into perspective. The graphic quickly made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, but unfortunately, while well-intentioned, it is also misleading in significant ways that can be used to undercut its basic message, which is sound: that false rape accusations are rare.
