Posted by admin on Sep 16, 2014 in Blog, Media Exploitation Gallery, Uncategorized | 0 comments
A Survivor’s Burden: Columbia Student Carries Mattress on Campus Until Alleged Rapist is Expelled
A Columbia University senior who says she was raped on campus by a fellow student has launched an unusual act of protest. Emma Sulkowicz has vowed to carry a dorm room mattress with her everywhere on campus until her rapist is expelled or leaves campus on his own. Sulkowicz says she was raped in...
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Posted by admin on Oct 15, 2010 in Blog, Stereotypes, Uncategorized | 1 comment
compliled by Ann J. Simonton
While many were flabbergasted over the sexual nature of young girls dancing in the World of Dance competition, many believe that what young cheerleaders are being asked to do, say and wear these days is much worse.
One mother complained that her 6 year old daughter was kicked off a local flag-football cheerleading squad after both parents questioned the...
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Posted by admin on Sep 29, 2010 in Blog, Uncategorized | 1 comment
If you begin having sex in the great state of North Carolina, want to stop, and your partner forcibly restrains you to continue having intercourse, well, you should have made up your mind beforehand. Once you’ve initially consented to the act, you relinquish the right to your own body, according to a 1979 state Supreme Court ruling: “no rape has occurred though the victim later...
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Posted by admin on Sep 28, 2010 in Blog, Racism, Sexism, Uncategorized | 2 comments
Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin
by Cindy Cooper
When Loretta J. Ross speaks, people listen. Ross is a big-picture thinker on reproductive justice, national coordinator of SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, headquartered in Atlanta, and a vibrant voice on women’s rights who brings three decades of analysis into every conversation. She...
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Posted by admin on Sep 26, 2010 in Bigotry, Blog, Stereotypes, Uncategorized | 0 comments
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FAIRY TALES © Jill Ginghofer 2010
Those big books with darkly mysterious illustrations: Snow White, Goldilocks, Rapunzul, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstilskin ……they’re mostly stories about girls of marriageable age who get into dire straits, only to be rescued by a Princely young man, a horse rider, with whom she lives happy ever...
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Posted by admin on Aug 11, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
Ann Simonton lectures at Jefferson Community College, Watertown, NY. 12 Noon, September 21, 2010.
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