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"Lie back and enjoy it" RJ Regan said about rape. Rape is not bad sex.
Rape is not "bad sex" or "sex gone wrong." It's rape. Believing otherwise upholds and feeds into rape culture and dangerously downplays the realities of…
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Why Women Are Always Blamed For The Violence Men Perpetrate Against Them
Victim-blaming and the exoneration of the assailant
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Mashable: Anatomy of a Scandal's gratuitous rape scenes show we never need to see it onscreen again
Netflix's political thriller series relies on old, lazy tropes and glossy, exploitative scenes.
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Beyond Equality: Research to Action with Mary Morgan on Tackling Rape Culture
Seminar Friday, June 16, 10 AM BST
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Mashable: What happens at a sensual masturbation workshop? Well, it blew my mind.
How do you masturbate in a room of strangers?
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Rape myths and rape culture underpin violence against women
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, let's look at how rape myths are a root of rape culture and gender-based…
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SHaME: Words from an “Unideal” Victim
An interrogation of the "ideal victim" myth in rape commentary, written for SHaME Research Group at Birkbeck University.
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Convicted Rapist Christopher Belter won't spend a day behind bars. You shouldn't be surprised.
From a lack of legal justice for victims to the overall treatment of rape, rapists and victims, our society lets down survivors of sexual assault. Our…
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The Telegraph: I know what can happen to a woman after she’s spiked on a night out
A first person piece about the realities of being drugged and sexual assaulted, and the pervasiveness of rape myths and rape culture in our society.
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Loving Your "Self" Is Rebellious in a Patriarchy
It is awfully hard to love yourself when the society in which you live deems your “self” less important than others’.
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Discussing ‘This Is Not For You’
The theory and research behind Mary Morgan's short art film in which she addresses her sexual assailant for the first time.
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Met Chief’s rhetoric of a few "bad ‘uns” diminishes the severity of Wayne Couzen’s crimes and upholds rape culture
In just two sentences, Cressida Dick managed to deflect blame, shield herself from responsibility, exonerate a rapist, and uphold rape culture.
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