“The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn’t a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish and control others.”
Steph Guthie. (via mysharona1987)
This should be posted in school hallways.
Before everyone gets in a “not all men” tizzy, let’s just remember that high school hallways are filled with rape jokes… But when a girl mentions her period, the faces of 99% of teenage guys turn white as a sheet.
News flash:
The female body is not disgusting. Rape is.I want to reblog this a million times
Emma Sulkowicz is on the cover of this month’s New York Magazine and that is the coolest thing wow
“Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.”
Robert Jensen (via satisfry)
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Watch: “It’s on us” urges the White House in powerful rape prevention video
If a man is preying on a woman who has had too much to drink, it is her responsibility to stop him and her fault if she can’t? No, it’s on us.
That is the message President Obama and Joe Biden are sending today with the launch of their new sexual assault prevention campaign “It’s On Us.”
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Some pictures from the rally today at Columbia. So much wonderful support for my sister and I! Emma and I are truly grateful to everyone who came, and everyone who was there in spirit.
This honestly makes me so emotional.
Students show solidarity by helping Columbia rape survivor carry her mattress
September 12, 2014Responding to the call to “carry the weight together,” fellow students helped Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia senior who is lugging her mattress everywhere while her rapist remains on campus, carry it from the courtyard to her class yesterday.
The collective carry was organized by students and alumni who want ”to help Emma carry the weight of the physical mattress, give her and other survivors of sexual assault in our community a powerful symbol of our support and solidarity, and show the administration that we stand united in demanding better policies designed to end sexual violence and rape culture on campus.”
As Alexandra wrote, the idea of “carrying the weight together” holds much symbolic resonance — not just as a way of lightening the burden on survivors but also by highlighting the collective sacrifice required to eliminate it. “If we all helped carry the weight of injustice, we could not bear it,” she wrote. “And so we would finally stop tolerating what we’ve been content to force others to carry alone.” And it makes a damn powerful visual too.
Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone
“I think the act of carrying something that is normally found in our bedroom out into the light is supposed to mirror the way I’ve talked to the media and talked to different news channels, etc,” Emma continues in the full video which you can watch here.