This blog will not be a forum for people who openly fantasize about abusive and nonconsensual situations to make unsubstantiated claims of fact, or to speculate about FV, her motives, etc. It’...
I should be modest and say I’m speculating, but after having read the core of the 9th Circuit’s decision striking Prop 8, and the dissent, I’m really sure I can see how this plays o...
I’ve been reluctant to join the recent conversation about Hugo Schwyzer because, by the time I became aware of it, most of what needed to be said was already being ably said, and, because I did...
When last I posted about the Bagley case, there were two cooperating witnesses, defendants who had entered guilty pleas and agreed to testify against Bagley. Now, Bradley Cook has agreed to a plea d...
[trigger warning for the text and the embedded links] What is it about December that inspires mass breakouts of victim-blaming? Is it the darkness encroaching on our days? Is it the way the holidays ...
I have nothing particularly eloquent to add, but I thought yesterday’s TDoR should not go unmarked here. The easiest and most direct oppression to understand is when people are killed just for...
Three years ago today, this blog launched. Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape had just hit the store shelves, and a whole slew of the contributors committed to po...
When I last posted on the California marriage equality case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the Ninth Circuit sent it to the State Supreme Court for a determination on standing. That sideshow is over. Th...
I have a lot of problems with Glee. Start with the constant character assassination, cloying and ill-conceived Very Special Episodes, and plot holes through which you could pilot a plane, and donR...
[Trigger warning for descriptions of intimate partner violence, graphic mutiliation, and use of BDSM as a cover for abuse] I haven’t blogged about this because I wanted to see the outcome. Ther...
What better place to post a conversation with Jaclyn Friedman about her new book, What You Really Really Want: A Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex And Safety than here on the blog we both wr...
[Trigger warning for descriptions of bullying and expressions of bigotry] Imagine a sixth grader cowering in the locker room. Six or eight guys are crowded around him and chant, “Faggot! Fagg...
Samhita covers the shocking tale of Jerry Sandusky, the longtime defensive coordinator of Penn State’s storied football program. If you’re not willfully tuning out college football news,...
A molester sat down next to me on the bus. He was suddenly my best friend. He was in fifth grade at the time, and I was in second, maybe, give or take a year. He never touched me inappropriately. ...
That’s not what the media will tell you, but that is the allegation. Jill points out that the allegations are not really sexual harassment. Sexual harassment comes in two varieties: quid pro q...
The political polling blog Fivethirtyeight (now a part of the New York Times) unearths a seventeen year old research paper to mark the twentieth anniversary of basketball legend Earvin “Magic&#...
The title is wrong, here. Since Allen is (In Amanda Marcotte’s words) a “professional concern troll,” she has no interest in the “memo,” as it were. She’s not in...
This blog is a direct outgrowth of the book, Yes Means Yes. In turn, the conversations that book sparked led to Jaclyn Friedman’s second book, just out, What You Really Really Want. It was th...
I am proud to repost the following by Clarisse Thorn. It was originally published at the girl-power site Off Our Chests. More recenty, Clarisse has posted frequently at Feministe. * * * I CAN’T COME....
Night and day, up and down, prude and slut. Neat oppositional bookends. But night and day can be defined and verified against the real world, and so can up and down. Prude and slut don’t adm...
It has been a while since I wrote about rape and abuse within BDSM, and others have said some very valuable things in the last two months or so. Charlie Glickman has a new post up that I feel I just...
Former radical right wing Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is on a book tour promoting a memoir. Since her career began as an abstinence crusader, you might think that she would be keen to ...
Maymay has a short post up about googling “submissive.” The images are all of women. He’s said before that when he looks for men being submissive, he finds women being dominant. Thi...
Kitty Stryker says a mouthful: It says a lot to me that I had to do some digging to find posts on this subject, yet I have yet to meet a female submissive who hasn’t had some sort of sexual assault h...
I’ve said it a few times already, but Clarknt67 at Pam’s House Blend has a very complete explanation, based on a poll of political insiders. Marriage equality is a wedge issue that harms...
(Yeah, the title is a bad pun on a rock radio staple. Sue me.) The New York Times had an article this morning about the “other” DOMA issue. It is one I’ve been thinking about sinc...
It’s been a while since I posted about a new state recognizing same-sex marriages. Right now, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case in California over Prop 8, is making its way through the courts ...
If you’ve been following my liveblogging at Feministe or my livetweeting at @jaclynf, you already know what a sickening and preventable crime against humanity sexual violence in conflict zones ...
Dear Ed Schultz: I read about your remarks towards Laura Ingraham yesterday on Talking Points Memo, and I was, as you now agree, properly appalled. I watched your apology on Feministing this morning...
I’m beyond honored to be attending the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s conference on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict, at which over 100 women from around the world – activists, academ...
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