From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Pulling the Plug on Rape Culture One Word at a Time — Cara’s WAM Presentation

by Cara March 31, 2009

On Sunday, as many of you know — and a few of you were actually there! — I moderated and participated in a session at WAM called Pulling the Plug on Rape Culture One Word at a Time with three absolutely amazing and fabulous co-presenters, Marcella Chester of Abyss2Hope, Ashley Burczak of the SAFER blog, [...]

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WAM

by Cara March 26, 2009

I’m in Boston, for WAM.  The day of travelling has been much too long for a simple 1 hour plane trip from Buffalo to Boston, but . . . there you go. I don’t have any intentions to live-blog the conference.  In fact, I’m taking a break from blogging over this weekend, and will do [...]

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Rolling Stone Subscription = Cancelled

by Cara March 24, 2009

I said a few weeks ago that I was planning to cancel my subscription to Rolling Stone magazine, due to their repeated misogyny and other prejudice. Well, I hadn’t yet gotten around to it.  But then, this issue just landed in my mailbox: The subscription to “random misogyny mag,” as my husband just called it, [...]

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Observing and Reporting Rape Culture at Work

by Cara March 23, 2009

Watching random music videos on TV last night, this commercial for the new Seth Rogen film Observe and Report kept playing over and over again.  The basis of the film seems to be that Seth Rogen plays a quirky (according to IMDB, bi-polar — so yay, we can likely expect lots of “jokes” mocking disability [...]

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When a Man is the Victim: A Second Study in Rape Apology

by Cara March 20, 2009

I’ve previously done an in depth analysis of victim-blaming and rape denial, and how it varies and how it stays the same, in a case of rape where a man was the victim of a female assailant.   After seeing this video at Sociological Images, along with the questions Lisa poses about the attitudes towards [...]

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This is Rape Culture

by Cara March 19, 2009

Note: The original post, which linked to a post at Jezebel about a question asked at Metafilter by a woman who had been raped by her boyfriend, has been removed.  I have never removed a post before,  and so the decision was hard and I still feel conflicted about it.  However, after learning about how [...]

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Everyone Matters: Dignity and Safety for Transgender People

by Cara March 18, 2009

The video below, Everyone Matters: Dignity and Safety for Transgender People, is a must watch. A description, from the YouTube page: Alishia is a firefighter. Enoch is a university professor. Dana is a software engineer. Jesse is an HIV prevention educator. Each makes invaluable contributions in the work place and in the community. And each [...]

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Required Reading

by Cara March 18, 2009

This post by Lisa at My Ecdysis, No Person is “Born to Rape” — about Josef Frizl, rape culture, how rape is regularly framed as inevitable and uncontrollable, which rapes are deemed “real” rapes, and so many other things — is so damn good that I’ve just shared it on every single social media site [...]

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Call Your Senators to Stop Violence Against Native American Women

by Cara March 17, 2009

According to reports by Amnesty International, Native American and Alaska Native women have a rate of rape and sexual assault 2.5 times higher than the U.S.  national average.  And seeing as how all of us here agree that the U.S. average rates of sexual violence are already much too high, this is clearly far from [...]

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Speechless

by Cara March 16, 2009

Trigger Warning Via CNN, on the man who “allegedly” imprisoned his daughter in a basement dungeon for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and forcing her to bear seven of his children, and who is just now finally entering his plea in the case: Josef Fritzl, accused of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for decades [...]

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