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Years after being assaulted, I can’t escape my rapist — and his picture-perfect life — on social media
1 in 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape
The stories we tell about Kobe Bryant
In recent days, Bryant stories have become meta stories, about memory and reckoning and hero worship and heroes
Can loitering and napping in public be acts of resistance?
‘Why should any woman have to justify being out on a street?’
A 4th grader was threatened with rape by classmates. She was told to ‘stay away’ from the boys.
This elementary school got it all wrong, experts say. Sexual misconduct cases like this one — involving very young kids — are notoriously hard to handle.
December 3, 2019
December 3, 2019
She spoke up about rape at her school — then got suspended for ‘bullying’
If 15-year-old Aela Mansmann does it again, she could be expelled, the principal said
October 23, 2019
October 23, 2019
The sexual abuse I experienced as a young girl was overlooked. After 20 years, I found a story that speaks to me.
My abuser was a female peer, close to my own age, and both of us were still children
Students go to this reporter with their sexual assault stories. Now their university might force her to reveal their names.
She works for the university-owned NPR station. The school says that makes her a ‘responsible employee’ under Title IX.
October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019
9 takeaways from Chanel Miller’s memoir, ‘Know My Name’
The book is far too nuanced to distill into an article — you’ll have to read it yourself — but here are key points
In ‘Know My Name,’ Chanel Miller conveys the horror of sexual assault — and the failures of the criminal justice system
Earlier this month, Miller identified herself beyond ‘Emily Doe,’ as she was known in her 2016 sexual assault case against Brock Turner
A prominent computer scientist made comments about the Epstein scandal in an email chain. Now, he has resigned from MIT.
In a group email, Richard Stallman suggested one of Epstein’s victims may have presented herself as ‘entirely willing’
