This Saturday, a group of protesters in Detroit will rally in Grand Circus Park and march to the Doubletree Hotel, demanding that the hotel cancel the upcoming Conference for Men’s […]
Author: Angi Becker Stevens
Angi Becker Stevens is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in many print and online literary magazines, in addition to being anthologized in Best of the Web 2010 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared online RH Reality Check, AlterNet, Common Dreams, and Socialist Worker. As a member of The Organization for a Free Society, she participates in a variety of activist work for social justice.
Dear Onion Writers: Sexual Abuse Isn’t Funny
TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ABUSE DISCUSSION I’m a long-time fan of The Onion. I generally find it both intelligent and hilarious, their social and political commentary being more spot-on than that […]
Should Feminists Be Critical of Compulsory Monogamy?
In 1980, Adrienne Rich broke new ground in her essay “On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” in which she argued that feminism need not merely include lesbian voices but actively […]
Beyond Consent: Opening Up a Dialogue About the Reality of Women’s Sexual Experiences
When reading and writing about what was arguably a rape scene in this season of Girls, I’ve been struck by how many of the comments from readers fixate on the debate over […]
Did “Girls” Romanticize a Rapist?
Like many of us who have been following the show, I’ve had lukewarm feelings about Girls’ contribution to feminism. Though many commentators have raised valid criticisms about the show’s handling […]
17-Year-Old Imprisoned for Failing To Testify Against Her Alleged Rapist
Update 4/17/12: After more than three weeks in juvenile detention, the victim has been released with a GPS ankle bracelet. She is scheduled to appear in court on April 23. […]
In Absence of Firm Policy, Facebook “Rape-Joke” Pages Spring Back Up
Several new rape-humor pages have already popped up on Facebook in the days since the original pages were removed. Several more were never taken down in the first place, reports […]
Without Comment or Apology, Facebook Quietly Removes Rape-Joke Pages
After more than three months of complaints from users, a grand total of over 200,000 petition signatures (186,000 of them on a single Change.org petition), a Twitter campaign, the withdrawal of […]
#NotFunnyFacebook: Day of Action Against Facebook’s Rape-Joke Pages
About six weeks ago now, I blogged here about the proliferation of rape-joke pages on Facebook and the company’s refusal to remove them. Though Facebook has policies against hate-speech and […]
We Are the 99%, Too: Creating a Feminist Space Within Occupy Wall Street
As most people know by now, something big is happening on the streets of New York City. It began on September 17, where a growing number of protestors began occupying […]