Preacher's Daughter: Sexual Violence and Discourses of "Purity"
October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month, and my friend, Katie Mulligan, has been blogging to raise awareness of intimate violence. She writes that she decided to do this "because the silence around...
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Thinking Kink: Is BDSM Therapy "A Dangerous Method"?
[TRIGGER WARNING for discussions of child sexual and physical abuse]I hope I’ve already covered plenty of ground about the differences between consensual kink and actual abuse. However, I think some...
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Why Didn't Police Listen to Amanda Berry's Mother?
There are far more questions than answers surrounding the case of the three kidnapped women in Cleveland who finally escaped their captors this week after up to a decade of imprisonment. Many details...
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Marissa Alexander Illustrates How the Legal System Can Abuse Domestic...
Portrait of Marissa Alexander by Molly Crabapple. Marissa Alexander is a mother of three, a Black woman, and a survivor of abuse. She is currently sitting in a Florida prison for firing a warning shot...
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Jian Ghomeshi’s Case is Not About a Kink—It’s About Abuse.
Jian Ghomeshi in the studio of CBC radio show Q in 2009. The station fired Ghomeshi last month in light of sexual harassment allegations and his "aggressive" treatment of women. Photo by Derek Miller....
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