What's your favorite analogy for consent? Borrowing $5? Drinking tea? Lending someone your car? All of these analogies have become popular online. In "There Has To Be A Better Way To End Rape Culture" Anna Hundert discusses how these descriptions both succeed and fail to capture the problems at the heart of rape culture. These exchange-based analogies for consent,... Continue Reading →
US Colleges’ sexual assault policies considered in rankings
Cartoonist Rebecca Cohen drew this comic for an article in Vitamin W. To determine which campuses are the best options for women, Vitamin W writer Padmini Parthasarathy and her team collected data on 80 US colleges. "We analyzed each school’s performance using several categories — including the ratio between male and female tenured professors, the presence of... Continue Reading →
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was Sexually Harassed Onstage At a Comic Convention Panel
The remarkable artist MariNaomi tells the truth about a disgusting experience she had at a comics convention in this illustrated essay published at xojane.com "He apologizes, then announces (twice) that he’s distracted by my lipstick, and lifts my water glass for the audience to see, as if this is a valid reason to lose your... Continue Reading →