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Confronting Rape Culture in Our Own Backyard
TRIGGER WARNING: The following includes commentary that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence. Please be advised. This has been one of the most difficult things I have ever written,...
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Please Don’t Refer to Burma as Myanmar
As I turned on the news this morning, a man I didn’t recognize was discussing the risks presented by North Korea’s rapidly escalating rhetoric and military posturing. Not an uncommon topic as of late,...
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You’re STILL Telling Me Rape Culture Doesn’t Exist?
TRIGGER WARNING: The following includes discussions that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence. Please be advised. If you came here expecting some kind of calm, patient, even-keeled...
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For Rehtaeh
TRIGGER WARNING: The following includes discussions that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence. Please be advised. I’ve been MIA for a few days, preparing to move this blog to a...
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They Only Live Who Dare
TRIGGER WARNING: The following includes discussions that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence. Please be advised. Talking about rape culture can be depressing stuff. First there’s the...
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Those Drugs Were for Rape, Not Sex
The bombshell news rocking social media on Monday afternoon was the revelation that Bill Cosby himself had admitted to drugging young women before sexually assaulting them. The news, unearthed in court...
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International Megan’s Law: A Pretty Terrible Idea
In 1994, 7 year old Megan Kanka was brutally raped and murdered by her 43 year old neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas. The news sent shockwaves across their community and the nation as a whole, not just...
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We Did It For The Likes
“She got caught up in the likes,” he said. We all know that sentiment in some capacity or another: the ego boost of a well received profile picture, the righteousness of an applauded political...
View ArticleDear Men
Hey guys. I know things have been tough lately. Weinstein. Franken. Levine. Batali. Rose. Thrush. Simmons. Tambor. Zimmerman. Kreisberg. Lauer. Louis C.K. Piven. Halperin. And on and on and on. The...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About Nancy Mace
In an election cycle characterized by bombastic if deluded rhetoric, it can be difficult to isolate the signal in the noise. Truthfully, I could sit here and type thousand after thousand after...
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