Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled April 24, 2024And there's a written version! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled April 24, 2024Naomi Klein on how Zionism has become a false idol. https://youtu.be/U75KcMUjMyI?si=uZuV_UNZkWXNFYG3&t=198
- Untitled April 24, 2024The Leader of All Manhood has issued his ruling: It's gay for men to love sex with women. Guys: If you hate sex with women, you can do it and be straight. But if you love sex with women, that's gay. If you want to be straight, fuck men instead. Sorry, but that's the rule.
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Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
No, The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Sexual Assault Is Not Bogus
This is another guest post by Carla, which originally appeared on her blog Writing in Water, and appears here with her kind permission. For more than 20 years, the idea of a crisis of sexual assault against women has been … Continue reading →
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On Not Believing Eron Gjoni Versus “Believe The Victim”
Part of my take on this is that I just don’t think Gjoni is credible. (Quick summary from Wikipedia for those who don’t know or who don’t remember: “In mid-August 2014 Eron Gjoni, Quinn’s former boyfriend, published the “Zoe Post”, … Continue reading →
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No, Surveys Do Not Use Overly Broad Definitions Of Sexual Assault
This is a guest post by Carla, which originally appeared on her blog Writing in Water, and appears here with her kind permission. A favourite tactic of critics of sexual violence surveys is to claim they inflate their results by … Continue reading →
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Thinking about Barbara Walters’ Interview with Vili and Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau
I’m giving two readings over the next few weeks, one on April 21st at the Risk of Discovery Reading Series, and the other on May 2nd as part of the New Masculinities Festival 2015. The details are below, but I’ve been giving … Continue reading →
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Being a Survivor of Sexual Violence is a Way of Knowing The World – 2
When I started counseling to come to terms with the fact that I am a survivor of childhood sexual violence, one of the first questions my therapist asked me after I sat down in his office was, “On a scale … Continue reading →
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My Reading at the 2015 International Conference on Masculinities
ETA: There were some problems with the original version of the video. This one should be better. As well, the text of the poems, which contain explicit descriptions of sex and sexual violence, appear below the fold. On March 5th of … Continue reading →
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Sex
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Being a Survivor of Sexual Violence is a Way of Knowing The World
In a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I talked about how and when I choose to reveal to my classes the fact that I am a survivor of sexual violence. I have not written much, however, about how people … Continue reading →
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The Politics of Being a Man Who Survived Childhood Sexual Violence 2
(You can read Part 1 here.) I have been remiss in not telling you about a book in which two of my poems have been published, Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men’s Movement. Both poems are from my … Continue reading →
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Cartoon: How Rape Makes Women Poorer
This cartoon was inspired by “Yes means yes” is about much more than rape, by Amanda Taub. Transcript: The cartoon is in flow chart form. Panel 1 is labeled “START HERE,” and shows a fashionable hipster man talking on a … Continue reading →
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“You’re a Man. Why Are You Teaching Women’s Studies?”
For me, the most difficult part of refusing to be silent about the fact that I am a survivor of childhood sexual violence has been figuring out when and under what circumstances to reveal it to my students at the … Continue reading →
Posted in Education, Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Writing
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