Today’s post was written by the amazing Soraya Chemaly, who was one of the lead organizers of last year’s campaign to get Facebook to take action about rape-joke pages, and my colleague at Feminism 2.0. (This post originally appeared on Fem2.0 and is reprinted with their permission.) Considering that up until last year Nevada ranked…
On Dec. 17 sex workers all over the world congregated to remember lives lost and assert their rights. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, held each December for the past eleven years, is both a somber day and one of agitating for the basic human rights and respect that all people deserve. It’s…
*TRIGGER WARNING* Just when you worry that you might be getting anesthetized to rape culture, it goes and sucker-punches you in the ovaries. Whether it’s rapists getting off with no jail time, #rapeface memes, military rape legislation, rape culture protests, or even just how incredibly inept the federal government is at counting sexual assaults —…
There has been so much bad news lately that I couldn’t decide on just one current event to write about. Here’s a round-up of some of the worst (trigger warning!) stories trending lately: Rape Town USA: The more we learn about the (alleged) rape case in Maryville, MO, the more I worry about keeping my…
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series with the question, “What does it mean to be a girl?” In the series we have explored the way society defines and confines girlhood, as well as gender in general. (Click here for part 1, part 2, and part 3.) This being SCS intern De’Liza Galimidi’s…
As a crowd of people collects on the corner of Fremont Street and The Boulevard, you might miss the slight white woman with the flaming red hair. Shorter than her three kids, barely audible through the megaphone she’s speaking into, this small mother may speak softly but her impact on Las Vegas was big on…
(SPOILER ALERT) Tonight’s episode of TNT’s crime procedural Major Crimes was a very compassionate look into gender identity, transgender individuals, and a burgeoning plot-line for a major character’s potential coming-out arc. Even as a fan of the show, I admit I was surprised that the show would tackle such heady topics — often done so…
[UPDATE: March scheduled downtown on Tuesday, July 16. Details here.] I have no words. I am choked with anger. The verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has once again proven that our criminal (in)justice system is criminally broken. As if I needed more fuel for the fire, it doesn’t help that yesterday another Florida court…
Today it was announced that diabetes drug-maker Novo Nordisk is dropping Paula Deen. It’s understandable that a diabetes drug-maker might not want to be linked to a spokesperson who has admitted to using the n-word. After all, blacks are twice as likely as whites to get diabetes. Keeping Deen on is like hiring Mel Gibson…
Have you seen the trailer for Girl Rising? It is a film depicting the struggles of girls from around the world as they attempt to go to school, stay in school, and generally fight to be educated. It’s Malala Yousafzai 2.0. From the film’s producers, 10×10 Film: Girl Rising is a groundbreaking film, directed by…
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