July 2010

Top 10 Post-Beatles Albums

by Cara July 31, 2010

This image by Jerry Bakewell, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Today is my birthday! And I figured that was the perfect excuse — as if I generally need one — to do a gratuitous Beatles post. People generally treat the breakup of the Beatles as an incredibly tragic event. There’s no doubt that [...]

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President Obama to Sign Law Targeting Sexual Violence Against Native American Women

by Cara July 29, 2010

I’m incredibly pleased to be able to pass along some great news for a change — the Tribal Law and Order Act, which I  had previously urged all of you to support, and which the infinitely awesome Pretty Bird Woman House vocally approves, has passed both houses of Congress and it set to be signed [...]

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U.S. Continues to Discriminate Against Sex Workers, Deny HIV Prevention Funding

by Cara July 27, 2010

Last Friday, Titania Kumeh wrote an excellent blog post at Mother Jones about the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, and the over 100 sex workers and advocates who protested outside. The protest was about how U.S. funding to fight HIV transmission explicitly and deliberately excludes sex workers, even though they are one of the groups [...]

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Age Old Victim-Blaming Myths Win Court Case for Girls Gone Wild

by Cara July 24, 2010

Trigger Warning for descriptions of sexual assault and explicit victim-blaming and sexual assault apologism. Earlier this week, a jury ruled against a woman who sued the Girls Gone Wild franchise on the grounds that they damaged her reputation when they included footage of her being forcibly disrobed in one of their DVDs (h/t). The woman, [...]

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Dead Firefighter’s Family Sues His Widow Because She is Trans

by Cara July 23, 2010

Warning: quoted text and linked articles contain transphobic language. This story is enraging and heartbreaking all at once. A woman named Nikki Araguz recently lost her husband Thomas, when he died while working as a firefighter on July 3. Instead of being allowed to mourn this horrific and sudden loss of her life partner, Nikki [...]

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New Report Details Police Abuses Against Cambodian Sex Workers

by Cara July 20, 2010

Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual violence and police violence, specifically including violence against sex workers and transphobic violence. Earlier this year, I wrote about an Amnesty International report about sexual violence against women in Cambodia, and the judicial response (or more accurately, lack of judicial response) to sexual violence. A section of that report [...]

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South African Sea Cadet Found Dead Hours After Rape Allegations Were Filed

by Cara July 19, 2010

Trigger Warning for descriptions of sexual violence, poor responses to rape allegations, and discussion of a possible murder, possible suicide. Last month, Akhona Geveza (above), a young South African woman who was participating as a cadet in the Transnet National Ports Authority’s Maritime Studies Programme, was found dead, floating overboard. Only a few hours before [...]

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Top 5 Ringo Starr Songs

by Cara July 16, 2010

This upcoming Wednesday, July 21, I’m lucky enough to be seeing the fabulous Ringo Starr in concert with his All Starr Band. A real live Beatle, right in front (well, eleven concert rows in front!) of me! Can you imagine? I know that I’m pretty damn excited. So excited, in fact, that I didn’t even [...]

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Police Officer Arrested for On-Duty Sexual Assault and False Imprisonment of Ex-Girlfriend

by Cara July 16, 2010

Trigger Warning for graphic descriptions of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and police violence. In Illinois, a sheriff’s deputy for Lake County has been arrested on charges of attempted sexual assault while armed and false imprisonment while armed, in neighboring Kenosha County. Both crimes are felonies. Jack Johnson (left) allegedly harassed, sexually assaulted, and physically restrained [...]

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Brazilian Football Star Charged in Gruesome Murder of Eliza Samudio

by Cara July 13, 2010

STRONG TRIGGER WARNING for very graphic, very disturbing descriptions of intimate partner murder. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Making the rounds is a horrifying story about the murder of Eliza Samudio, a Brazilian woman who has been missing for a month. Charged in the case is football goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes Das Dores de Souza. Her association [...]

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