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Rape: the sinister blame game

by Cara February 16, 2010

A new UK study shows that most people still blame rape victims at least some of the time — and women are even more likely to victim-blame than men. I offer my analysis on these findings in my first ever piece for the Guardian. A new survey by the Havens service for rape victims shows [...]

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One Million

by Cara January 8, 2010

I’m proud and honored to announce that this past Sunday, January 3rd, The Curvature hit its 1,000,000th visitor since its humble beginnings two and a half years ago. So, I wanted to take this moment to thank all of the readers, commenters, people who send in tips, and especially all of the other feminist-type bloggers [...]

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Discussion on Rape Culture on Womanist Musings Blogtalk Radio Podcast

by Cara October 10, 2009

Tomorrow, Sunday, October 11 at 8pm EST, I’ll be on the Womanist Musings Blogtalk Radio show. Melissa McEwan from Shakesville and I will be discussing rape culture, as well as the Roman Polanski case, with Renee Martin and her podcast co-host Monica Roberts from Transgriot. I’m not quite entirely sure at the moment what I’ll [...]

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50 Books for Problematic Times

by Cara August 3, 2009

About a month ago, Newsweek released a list of “50 Books For Our Times” — 50 books that open a window to the modern world in which we live. RMJ at Deeply Problematic reviewed this list, and noticed that, apparently, the modern world is remarkably white, male and straight. The writers on this list were, [...]

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Birthday

by Cara July 31, 2009

VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip For The Beatles: Rock Band fans. How my husband got this video, let alone on my birthday, I do not know. But he did, and it is. ETA: There are three more The Beatles: Rock Band videos up at VH1. Check them [...]

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Who Was Dr. George Tiller?

by Cara June 5, 2009

I have a post (my first!) up at Global Comment. It’s about Dr. George Tiller . . . a subject I’ve been silent on here since his death (though I did write a bit at Feministe).  A taste: Any doctor who chooses to provide abortions in America, where there is a pervasive and largely accepted [...]

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Blogiversary

by Cara April 18, 2009

Today, April 18, 2009, is the two year anniversary of The Curvature. And coincidentally, the post after this one will also be my 1,000th post. Wow. Two years. One thousand posts. I’m not in a hugely philosophical or reflective mood, so I will simply say: that’s a lot of feminism, ranting and random Beatles stuff. [...]

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Yes Means Yes LiveChat at Feministe

by Cara February 20, 2009

I will be participating in a livechat today at Feministe at 3PM EST to discuss the anthology about sexual violence called Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. The chat will be moderated by Feministe blogger Rachel, and also feature YMY contributors Toni Amato, Hanne Blank, Heather Corrina, and [...]

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Reminder: Yes Means Yes Live Chat at Feministing

by Cara February 2, 2009

Just a quick reminder that at 3PM EST today, I’ll be live-chatting with Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez about Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape.  All you have to do to participate or read along is head over to Feministing at that time.  I [...]

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Yes Means Yes Live Chat

by Cara January 31, 2009

On Monday February 2, I will be participating in a live-chat on Feministing with Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, the editors of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape.  Also participating are Feministing bloggers and fellow Yes Means Yes contributors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez. Did I never officially [...]

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