Do you wonder what sexism and misogyny look like in 2012? Imagine a drawing of a woman. She’s clad only in a bra and a thong. She’s got bruises on her side. There’s an apple jammed in her mouth. And she’s stretched out, tied up, suspended from a spit and roasting over a fire. You […]
Author: Dana Bolger
Dana Bolger is a feminist, student activist, and intern at the National Women’s Law Center. She attends college in Massachusetts. You can follow her on twitter @danabolger.
College Rape Survivors: Title IX Is Not Just About Sports
[TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault survivors] After-rape is to be consumed by emptiness, isolation, fear, shame and anger. After-rape at college is to be confronted by my rapist every day—on the quad, in the library, at breakfast. It is to be ceaselessly reminded of the moments in which power and control were stripped from me, […]