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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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De Anza Witnesses Condemn Botched Rape Investigation

by Cara May 24, 2010

I don’t usually do quick hits, but I thought that this one, via SAFER, was reason for an exception. The three witnesses in the De Anza rape case — Lauren Chief Elk, Lauren Bryeans, and April Grolle — have written an editorial for the San Jose Mercury News about the new revelation that some key [...]

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Tell the Department of Justice to Adopt New Standards to Address Prison Rape

by Cara April 30, 2010

In the past couple months, I’ve written two posts about the enormous issue of prison rape. Over at Feministe, one of our guest bloggers, Liliana, also wrote an excellent post on the subject, which I highly recommend. Amanda at the Sexist has recently published her own take (trigger warning: the post contains many important but [...]

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Anti-Choicers Target Women of Color: How Should Pro-Choicers Respond?

by Cara February 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Renee wrote a post about an Atlanta billboard targeting black women’s reproductive rights by pointing to the higher rates of abortion among black women, and claiming that abortion clinics are attempting to abort black children out of existence. It’s a great post, touching on many things that will come up here, and [...]

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Remembering Dr. King

by Cara January 18, 2010

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]

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Support Sex-Positive Sex Education

by Cara November 13, 2009

Scarleteen is, in my view, the absolute best sex education website out there. And while I can’t claim to be entirely impartial about that assessment — I know Heather, Scarleteen’s founder, and also received a free sex education training through the site this summer — I can say that it’s an assessment I’ve held since [...]

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School Accepting Donations for Gang Rape Survivor

by Cara November 2, 2009

By now, you’ve almost certainly read about the gang rape that took place outside a high school dance in California. I’ve avoided reading the updated details due to the fact that this story hit me extremely hard, but [trigger warning] the initial reports said that there were multiple assailants, the rape continued for about two [...]

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Help SAFER Win $10,000

by Cara September 3, 2009

During the 24-hour Blogathon just over a month ago, I think that I made my deep respect and support for Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) quite clear. And so I just wanted to give them a shout out now — they have a chance at winning $10,000 for the organization, and just two or [...]

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64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi

by Cara June 19, 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-democracy leader from Burma.  She is also currently a political prisoner.  For her political activities, she had been under house arrest for several years — until this May, when she was put into prison: She is currently facing trial in Burma. She was on [...]

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UK Survey on Intimate Partner Violence in Trans Communities

by Cara June 12, 2009

Spectrum London, a UK peer support group for trans people, recently put out this press release: Domestic Violence and abuse is in the limelight more than ever before. The levels of abuse to heterosexual women are 1 in 4 – the same figure experienced by LGBT people. “Domestic violence is still invisible in our communities,” [...]

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