Category: Sexual violence
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How Much Effort Do Women Put Into Coping With Sexual Harassment in a Day?
Find the original article at Talkspace. It’s that knot of anxiety in the pit of your stomach when you walk down the street. You step off the train, your bag in front of your breasts, flinching lest the next passerby brush you “accidentally-on-purpose.” It’s never knowing whether your boss is leaning just a little too close. It’s…
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Why Doesn’t My Friend Leave Their Abusive Partner – and How Can I Help?
Find the original piece at Talkspace. You may see your friend crying, hear your friend’s partner make demeaning comments towards them, or notice they seem anxious around or afraid of their partner. Or your friend may open up to you on their own. Knowing or suspecting that someone you care about is in an abusive…
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Street Harassment and its Effect on Women’s Mental Health in Teen Vogue
You can find this piece in Teen Vogue and the original at Talkspace. I remember what I was wearing: A blue tank top with a picture of a peacock, jean short-shorts, and flip-flops. I remember the weather: High summer, sweet grass scenting the air and the sun just beginning its slow descent to the horizon.…
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Here’s How Street Harassment Affects Women’s Mental Health—And How We Heal
Read the full article at the Talkspace blog. I remember what I was wearing: A blue tank top with a picture of a peacock, jean short-shorts, and flip-flops. I remember the weather: High summer, sweet grass scenting the air and the sun just beginning its slow descent to the horizon. I was walking down a…
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We need to confront gendered violence in movement spaces.
Read the original article at Feministing. It’s easy to talk about gendered violence from conservative men because, well, their ideology is often consistent with their douchebaggery. When you’ve devoted your entire career to ranting against abortion rights on television or groping your way to a white-supremacist presidency, there’s a pretty clear and obvious connection between your stated values (sexist)…
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What Does it Mean to Break Silence?
Read the original article at Feministing. After the Trump — and the Cosby — and the Weinstein — and the Toback — revelations, we heard the same question asked over and over again: How can everyone know that sexual harassment and assault are happening, and still not admit that it is happening? Why are sexual assault and harassment so often “open secrets”? When we say that rape culture is a…
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Pink’s Right. Sometimes You Just Want To Clock a Man With a Beer Bottle
Find the original article at The Ladies Finger. Sometimes, you just want to clock a man on the head with a beer bottle. This, at least, is the lesson I draw from Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s Pink. And boy, is it true. The past few weeks have been one of those times. It’s the beginning of cooler…
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The Nation in Our Underwear
A piece in Nat Brut on the work of Azita Moradkhani “It started the first time I walked into Victoria’s Secret.” Azita Moradkhani, an artist who has lived most of her life in Tehran, begins our phone conversation by excusing her English. She just learned it, she tells me, a few years ago to move to…
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The Men Who Raped India’s Nirbhaya Will Hang—But That Doesn’t Mean Justice
Originally published at Feministing The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh haunts Delhi. It hovers in the landmarks of the southern part of the city—an overpass, a mall. It is commemorated as a yearly time of mourning and renewed commitment by feminists and rights activists. It hovers in the back of your mind at night, when you…
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On Honoring Survivors — All Survivors
I’m interested in reconsidering the way we understand sexual violence and intimate partner violence, their victims, and their perpetrators. We need more complex models of sexual violence that seek real justice — not further harm. And we need to respect the complexity of lived experiences of pleasure, violence, and sexuality. My Vagina is Tired of…
Reina Gattuso 