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Woman Gang Raped in Homophobic Hate Crime

by Cara December 23, 2008

Trigger Warning Having just yesterday discussed the ways in which many depictions of rape uphold the violent act as an appropriate punishment for women who behave outside of patriarchal expectations, I couldn’t not post this story (h/t). A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, [...]

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KBR Bans Cell Phones and Silences Rape Victims

by Cara August 8, 2008

KBR, the defense contractor doing a lot of heavy lifting in the upholding of our occupation of Iraq, has banned the use of personal cell phones by its employees.  KBR and its previous parent company Halliburton are notorious for many things.  One of those things is the rape and cover up of rape committed by [...]

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Rape Apologism Ends in Suicide

by Cara July 14, 2008

Ashley has the outrageously disturbing, senseless and tragic story of a young woman who was raped and later committed suicide, and whose parents are now suing her college alleging that they didn’t do enough to prosecute the rapists.  A description of the assault (trigger warning): Wright was allegedly raped after leaving a party in a [...]

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Sports Rape Culture Keeps On Thriving

by Cara July 9, 2008

The title to this opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about rugby rape culture is atrocious — When a woman cries rape, a football code turns itself into a fortress — but it turns out that we can either blame the editor, or a poor sense of irony. Because the article is actually quite [...]

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“A Complete Travesty of Justice”

by Cara May 11, 2008

A grand jury has found that there is not enough evidence to move forward in the De Anza rape case (trigger warning for this link and the rest of the post). I am so angry that I can hardly see straight. Allow me to jog your memory. This would be the case of gang rape [...]

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More Contractor Rape, More Cover Up

by Cara April 5, 2008

I mentioned before that the theme of this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month is sexual violence in the workplace. So, let’s talk about it. Another woman has come forward to tell her story about working for KBR in Iraq. She was drugged and brutally gang raped by at least one American soldier and one KBR [...]

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