I have fought hard. The fight has been very long.

I put the money up for a domain name and hosting to create this site and blog. I dealt with the aftermath of rape and expulsion WITHOUT health insurance because I was no longer a student. I dealt with the aftermath of my student loans defaulting and having bad credit on top of all the bad effects ( Read more... )

It is almost laughable that the day before a national holiday meant to commemorate one of the leaders of the civil rights movement for African Americans I find myself applying for food stamps and General Assistance. A year and a half after getting expelled, I see myself becoming increasingly closer to that statistic. A young, uneducated black ( Read more... )

In a Daily article that I mentioned in my previous post, Reitman boasted of an award given to Tufts University. Unfortunately it seems that he got a few things mixed up.

Reitman added that far from noncompliance, Tufts has been recognized for its adherence to the Clery Act. “The university, through the Department of Public Safety, has been a ( Read more... )

The nonprofit organization Security On Campus recently reached out to Tufts University concerned with one key part of their sexual assault policy may be in violation with federal policy. Daniel Carter, who is their Director of Public Policy contacted the university.

The Tufts Daily says:

The nonprofit organization Security on Campus, Inc. (SOC) ( Read more... )

I had to write a quick entry recognizing how today, December 10, 2010, is Human Rights Day. What is it exactly? On the UN site it says:

Human Rights Day 2010 on 10 December recognizes the work of human rights defenders worldwide who act to end discrimination.

Acting alone or in groups within their communities, every day human rights defenders ( Read more... )

Just learned that the Center for Public Integrity just published an article about the Office of Civil Rights’ settlements with two universities. These recent developments mean not only better policies for the two schools involved, but also nationwide:

Meanwhile, the OCR’s Ali says her office will be working to push for such big-picture reform when ( Read more... )

This is something that isn’t glaringly related to being a sexual assault survivor from Tufts University, but I caught a little blurb this week that caught my eye. At the San Francisco Examiner the article “Civil rights complaints to Department of Education increase as investigations intensify” shares how the Department of Education’s Office for ( Read more... )

When the new sexual assault policy was revealed for Tufts, I was excited to see the improvements the school had made. They had made a lot of mistakes and even though they never admitted as such, I sought the new policy as a mea culpa of sorts: by going forward with an efficient policy they could show going forward to a new era where rape victims ( Read more... )

This is the first year with a complete, new sexual assault policy. Personally, I think there is still a lot of things about it that alarm me (such as a SINGLE person deciding whether someone should be punished or not), but it is nice to see progress towards proper change.

Just wanted to share that the students of Tufts’ SAFER just had a victory! ( Read more... )

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... )