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…
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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…