April 2011
47 posts
March 2011
85 posts
rihanna, parenthetical girls, former ghosts, placebo
shut up. i can do whatever i want.
Mississippi to vote on "Life begins at fertilization" law. →
wdam.com
PLEASE reblog this. I heard nothing about this until today, when one of my friends in Mississippi said she saw protesters outside her local Planned Parenthood talking about “Something 26”. (This is Amendment 26.)
DO NOT LET THIS FLY UNDER THE RADAR. GET THE WORD OUT.
gtfo of my uterus already, wingnuts
I hope it is about the e-mail you sent, and I hope they took what you said to heart.
in fact, it was exactly about that. seems like my e-mail is making the rounds amongst school officials — deans and the like. i’m hopeful.
i got an ominous voicemail from student life asking me to come into the office today. it’s got to be about the e-mail i sent re: victim blaming…
blarg watching holocaust survivors talk badly about palestinians breaks my heart
the feeling when you rsvp to a facebook event for a critical theory conference and you instantly identify the event image as one referenced by benjamin…
sooo i just sent this to campus security:
“Mr. Jackson,
My name is Liz and I am writing about the e-mail that was sent out
earlier tonight regarding a sexual assault at 162 N State St. It
saddens me deeply to hear about the assault, but what really upsets me
is the disinformation you so blindly disseminated to the entire
campus, which includes a variety of assault survivors. The FTC’s
“security tips” are rife with victim blaming statements that shame
survivors of sexual assault into believing it was their fault. With
all due respect, Mr. Jackson, the best thing someone can do to prevent
sexual (and really any type of) assault is to, quite simply, not
assault anyone. I am irate at your poor decision to circulate
precisely the kinds of myths that contribute to a culture that accepts
and normalizes violence against women, reiterating the idea that a
woman can be at fault for her assailant’s actions.
Shame on you for further complicating this survivor’s ability to
understand what happened. At this person’s most vulnerable time, you
have essentially provided proof that it was his or her fault. Instead
of acting as a student advocate, you provided a list of reasons why
the student may have deserved this attack. Needless to say, I find
this deplorable. This student was extremely courageous to share his or
her story with you — many sexual assaults go unreported because
victims believe they won’t be taken seriously. Not surprising when,
for example, school authorities endorse victim blaming.
Unfortunately, it’s likely that this student will encounter many more
people in the future — friends, family, teachers, etc — who question
the survivor instead of the perpetrator. Since SAIC Security has
clearly demonstrated its own lack of understanding of these facts,
here are some basic tips you might want to include in future messages:
http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/preventing-sexual-assault-tips-guaranteed-to-work/
I strongly urge you to take a long, hard look at the statements you
issue regarding sexual assault. Although the statements originated
with the FTC and not SAIC, it is SAIC’s responsibility to filter and
assess such third party statements. I would like to see a campus-wide
e-mail sent out tomorrow, apologizing to all survivors of sexual
assault for this egregious oversight.
Thank you for your time and consideration.”
this calls for falafel
FUCK campus security. Are you serious?? Who wrote fucking wrote that?? I'd file a complaint immediately and ask the name of the person who wrote that so I could explain to them why their "input" was so uncalled for.
Also, "It doesn't take a genuis to..." - WHAT. FUCK YOU.
I’m in the process of writing the school right now. Rest assured, I’ll be blahggin’ any updates. This is unacceptable, and such a disappointment for an institution that handled my own sexual assault so well. To be fair, the FTC wrote those guidelines, but SAIC still needs to acknowledge and speak out against victim blaming, not disseminate it further.
trigger warning: victim blaming after a sexual assault
Below is text from an e-mail I just received in my campus inbox. The bold text is mine.
This is Campus Security with a message to the SAIC community…
I HAVE HAD QUITE ENOUGH THINKING, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
F U GRAD SCHOOL
Twice the fool, me.
reblogged for unfortunate parallels in my own life!
I NEED TO VENT
De Anza Rape Trial Filled with Victim Blaming, Slut Shaming →
thecurvature.com
Trigger Warning on posts and links for very explicit descriptions of gang rape against an intoxicated person, severe victim-blaming and rape apologism, and ableism.
Four years ago, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped at an alcohol fueled party by 9 young men, almost all De Anza College baseball players. The girl was found by three female soccer team players, who are said to have forced their way into the room to break up the ongoing assault, finding the victim semi-conscious and covered in vomit while men performed various sexual acts on her. The victim went to police; the three women were all very clear in their statements about how the encounter was not and could not have been consensual. A huge media frenzy ensued. And then, no charges were ever filed against the accused players.
Back in spring 2007, very soon after I first began blogging, the De Anza rape case was one of the very first instance of sexual violence I ever wrote about, so long ago that it was before I had come to terms with the fact that I was a rape survivor myself. For that reason among many others, it is a case that I have written about very extensively and that has always remained very strongly with me. Almost four years later, the case is still not over, justice has not been done, and the victim is still actively seeking accountability for what was done to her that night.
Three years after the DA decided to not pursue the case for “insufficient evidence” — despite the three witnesses to the rape never having been sought for grand jury testimony, and despite much forensic evidence never being tested — the victim has taken her case to civil court in a final attempt at legal recognition of the crimes against her.
This post is largely just a round-up of all the shit that’s been going on in this case since it first began a couple weeks back. It’s kind of hodgepodge, I must confess. And the nature of the information itself is horrible. Please take the trigger warning seriously.
ho-ly mo-ly. i write about atrocities like this because i feel an imperative to do so. i wish there was no imperative — that is, i wish that such disgusting things didn’t happen. unreal. and yet, so totally common.
“Rape isn’t a ‘natural hazard’ like a cliff edge that women must be careful to avoid when drunk - it is a willful act of violence perpetrated by another human being and the responsibility lies with the perpetrator not the victim. Drinking alcohol is not illegal or wrong. Perpetrators are in control of their actions. A woman is never responsible for a man raping her. But society’s morals and logic currently display a yogic ability to bend over backwards to accommodate, accept, and normalize the reality of violence against women. Studies show that people who display high levels of sexism are more likely to accept the idea that women can be to blame when a man rapes them. This propensity to blame victims and often to absolve the perpetrators allows the cultures that breed sexist violence to go unchallenged. Victim-blaming must also end for the real cause of sexist violence—gender inequality—to come into full view.”
—
Kat Banyard, The Equality Illusion (2010)
i’m adding this to my thesis.
my brain isn't getting enough oxygen or whale song or the melody of death or the last breath
l-bop
weekly experiments in time and sound, aka “my brain isn’t getting enough oxygen or whale song or the melody of death or the last breath.mp3”
my house smells like garlic
i ain’t mad
mueran humanos -- horas tristes
can’t stop listening
RAPE/ASSAULT WARNING to those in JAPAN
There have been reports of men approaching single women, pretending to be a police officer or someone from an aid organization offering to take them to a ‘safer place’. They are trying to take advantage of stranded women during the crisis.
For those of you who live in Japan, spread this around to everyone you know.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE (rant time)
okay, so, seriously, i want to punch people in the face who believe rape is a crime of passion. rape is a crime based on lust, sure, but it’s based on a lust for power, control, domination, and exploitation. like, say, the exploitation of trust that a person might give to someone he or she thinks is an official trying to help them after an insane natural disaster.
here is a clear example of a population of women whose vulnerability is heightened, and what happens? they get raped. the tragedy of these acts is increased because this is a common occurrence after natural disasters leave large populations homeless and bereft (see hurricane katrina, haiti earthquake, etc).
I had a moment the other day when I was walking and a that Marina and The Diamonds song we listened to in Rachel's old apartment that one time when you visited came on and it made me think of you. :)
oof. nostalgia! so many things make me think of you guys. i wish we were hanging out!
axe me a queshin →
treasurehiding.tumblr.com
i’m surprised nobody has harassed me through this yet. come on, now’s your chance…
