What Is “Survivor Privilege”? I Don’t Know And Neither Does George Will
[Content note: sexual assault] At the Daily Dot, I have an analysis of George Will’s useless Washington Post column and many (but not all) of the ways in which it is wrong: George Will’s...
View ArticleAre Anti-Rape Devices the Best We Can Do?
[Content note: sexual assault] Four students at North Carolina State University have developed a nail polish that can detect the presence of certain drugs used to facilitate sexual assault and change...
View ArticleFour Better Ways To Prevent Sexual Assault Than Blaming Victims
My newest Daily Dot piece is up. It’s about Don Lemon’s inappropriate remarks to Joan Tarshis about her allegations against Bill Cosby, and how we can do better. As allegations that Bill Cosby raped 15...
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The Context of the Thing
[Content note: sexual harassment/assault, victim blaming, racism, police brutality, homophobia, fat shaming] Many debates in the realm of social justice and politics are debates about context. In what...
View ArticleHow to Get Away with Rape
[Content note: rape & sexual assault] My latest piece for the Daily Dot is about excuses people make when accused of rape. In 2013, two then-students at Vanderbilt University, Brandon Vandenburg...
View ArticleUber Can’t Fix Rape Culture
I wrote a Daily Dot piece about Uber, rape culture, and what the service can and can’t do to prevent sexual assault. On Wednesday, ubiquitous ridesharing app Uber announced a partnership with UN Women,...
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Rape Isn’t a Fashion Statement
[Content note: sexual assault] I wrote a Daily Dot piece about rape “joke” t-shirts. An unnamed Coachella attendee is making headlines online after Jemayel Khawaja, managing editor of Thump, tweeted a...
View Article“The Good Ones Say No”: Why Purity Culture and Rape Culture Are Two Sides of...
[Content note: sexual assault/coercion] Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, recently livetweeted her son’s high school sex education class....
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