by Jillian Hewitt
Following a year-long investigation, the Center for Public Integrity and National Public Radio recently published a series of articles (complimented by on-air stories) about sexual assault on college campuses. Given the recent dialogue at Princeton about sexual assault, I wanted to bring this particular issue to light because I think it gives [...]
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March 9, 2010
NPR and the Center for Public Integrity weigh in on campus sexual assault
March 9, 2010
Help queer the census!
The 2010 Census is upon us! According to the U.S. 2010 Census Bureau:
“Census information affects the numbers of seats your state occupies in the U.S. House of Representatives….the information the census collects helps to determine how more than $400 billion dollars of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services like Hospitals, Job [...]
March 9, 2010
Student organization Let’s Talk Sex provides details of pornography lecture
Motivated by interest expressed by students across campus in the issues of sexuality and pornography, the student organization Let’s Talk Sex has chosen to sponsor a lecture by feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino on April 29, 2010. The goal is to begin a productive and intellectual discourse about a controversial subject.
The event will be held at [...]
March 8, 2010
Happy International Women’s Day!
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Here are some celebratory sentiments from fabulous feminists:
30 Women Making History, from the Women’s Media Center.
An International Women’s Day reading list from Rh Reality Check.
Why we need to invest in family planning, from Guttmacher.
Gloria Feldt on equal rights.
The Feminist Peace Network: Equal opportunity requires a paradigm shift.
A history [...]
March 7, 2010
Maternal mortality rising in the U.S.
by Lisa Conley
The above video discusses the troubling trend of maternal mortality increasing among US women. The two main causes mentioned are obesity/preexisting health problems and planned (Cesarean) C-sections. The Sentinel Event Alert mentioned in the ABC news clip lists the following as the most common preventable errors in hospitals “failure to adequately control blood [...]
March 6, 2010
Gender-Neutral Oscars?
by Nick Cox
Kim Elsesser, in a recent New York Times article, raised the question of why there should still be separate Oscars for male and female actors, and makes a compelling case for making the acting Oscars gender-neutral. She pulls out all the punches, pointing out what an outcry there would be if the Oscars [...]
March 5, 2010
US Senate attempts to repeal gay blood donor ban
by Kelly Roache
Yesterday, 18 US Senators – including New Jersey’s own Frank Lautenberg – petitioned the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner to lift the standing lifetime ban on blood donation by gay men. Led by Senator John Kerry, the legislators are fighting a statute that bars men who have had sex with men (MSM) since [...]
March 4, 2010
Mauritania Islamic Scholars Issue Fatwa Against Female Genital Mutilation
by Laura Smith-Gary
In January, in the capital of Mauritania a group of thirty-four Muslim scholars and clerics came together to issue a fatwa against female genital mutilation. In a country where over 70% of girls under 15 undergo genital mutilation/cutting and the CIA factbook reports that 100% of the population is Muslim, the scholars declared [...]
March 3, 2010
Thoughts on Utah Bill that would Penalize Women for Miscarriage
by Jillian Hewitt
About two weeks ago, the Utah legislature passed a bill that will allow the state to “charge a woman with criminal homicide for inducing a miscarriage or obtaining an illegal abortion.” So far, though, the media has given it little attention. Given this lack of publicity⎯in addition to the fact that Utah’s [...]
March 3, 2010
More on consent
by Josh Franklin
Hey all! I’m working on a longer post with a few thoughts I’ve had for a while now about consent and how sexual violence prevention campaigns work, which seems especially appropriate given the discussions we’ve been having recently about consent here and in the Daily Princetonian. For now, I want to just let [...]
