I came across this post on Tumblr, which highlights a real-life example of intersectionality of oppressions for poor woman of colour survivors. Apparently there’s been a meme going around making fun of Antione Dodson, the brother of a  survivor of attempted raped who voice his (very justified) fury about his sister’s attack.

According to Dodson a ( Read more... )

You may have noticed that I have been concentrating on the concept of intersectionality in relation to creating better sexual violence campus policies lately. I have turned to this ecause I think that many people who talk or think about sexual assault concentrate on the pain of the individual victims (or the attempts to preserve the reputation of ( Read more... )

“Oppression is linked. We cannot challenge one system of oppression without challenging others.”

In the month of February, I will be able to share more details of my story as a rape victim at Tufts. Until then, I will try to write as often as possible about relevant issues that I think are not oft mentions in terms of anti-rape activism. So we ( Read more... )

Over the progression of the existence of this blog, I have noticed the increasingly political nature of the material (or at least it has felt more political to me over time). I accredited it to the reason for starting this blog - critiquing the lack of a proper sexual violence policy at Tufts and the resistance to create one - but when finishing ( Read more... )