Raising funds to lift women Women need to stand up for themselves and each other was the main message of the Woman of Substance: Shatter the Silence and Begin the Healing concert, held at the Little Carib Theatre. During the event, an award was presented to veteran calypsonian Sandra “Singing Sandra” Des Vignes-Millington for her … Continue reading
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Getting It Wrong On Rape Or No Sperm, No Rape, Or Why a Two-Year-Old Girl Does Not Need to be Taught Modesty
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
After an Indigenous Guyanese woman reported that she was drugged and gang-raped at the hotel where she worked and police had no intention of investigating the rape, women took to the streets in protest and solidarity. One local newspaper alleges that police are not investigating the rape…
Caribbean Leaders are No Angels, They are Politicians with Problems
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Vile and Oblivious Politicians Support State Violence Against Children At least three recent stories in Caribbean media have highlighted the systemic rape of boys and girls in state care and the horror houses known as children’s homes. Getting raped while literally under the care and protection of…
No Laughing Matter: Stories of rape and sexual assault in Caribbean media this week
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Laughing at boys who are raped The Jamaica Observer recently subjected readers to the most crass and reprehensible of cartoons which pokes fun at the rape of boys in institutionalized care. Yes, they invited readers to laugh at the fact that boys were being raped. A UN…
Taking Statutory Rape Seriously
Imagine the following rape statute: “If a person over the age of twenty-one years has sexual contact constituting oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a minor under the age or fourteen years, such person shall be guilty of a Class A felony and shall be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.” If the legislature…
UPDATE: “Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow.
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
In response to this http://whatsleftoftheleft.com/2013/07/30/is-it-still-rape-if-you-kill-her-first-pub-quiz-question-from-radio-bar-glasgow/ and the comments people have been leaving on the Radio-Nude bar Facebook page and Twitter, below is a statement from G1 group I have recently received and my response. Thank you everyone for your support on this. Dear Matthew, In reference to…
“Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
Please circulate/re-blog/tell others/tweet etc. Last night myself and four others went to a bar called Radio in Ashton Lane, Glasgow for the pub quiz. It was a horrific experience. The quiz comprised sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments and questions, and most frightening of all, encouragement…
Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced
“When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger’s Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won’t know for sure unless you start sexually assaulting me. I can’t see inside your head, and I don’t know your intentions. If you expect me to trust you—to accept you at … Continue reading
Prey/Pray- or- another one for the ‘almost rape’ aka ‘life as a woman’ files..
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Guest post by Sherlina Nageer of Red Thread, Guyana This is how it happensThis is how it happens8:30pmA woman is walking home aloneNevermind what she’s wearingThere is no one else on the roadSome streetlights, but not the whole wayA car rolls up slowly behind herYoung man at…
OpinionatedPlanet – A rambling post about online abuse, misogyny, rape & football.
“Now, I’m a feminist. One of the extreme ones that demands an end to violence against women and girls, but I’m reasonably kind, and try my best not to be hurtful to other women. After all, women do what they have to do, in order to survive under patriarchy. So I go easy on them. … Continue reading
