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October 19, 2017 | Gabriel Leão | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Online harassment, Violence against women
In Brazil, one woman challenges a system ‘made by men for men’

When in August Brazilian writer and feminist activist Clara Averbuck refused the advances of an Uber driver, he physically threw her out of his car, leaving her bruised and with a black eye. He then sexually assaulted her as she lay on the ground.

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September 22, 2017 | Lucy Westcott | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Gloria Steinem, International, Violence against women
Global feminists—from Gloria Steinem to Leymah Gbowee—join in solidarity with Congolese women

On computer screens thousands of miles away from one another, some of the world’s leading feminist figures joined in solidarity with women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the country’s first-ever women’s summit on September 14.

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January 06, 2014 | Vidyut | Feminism, International, Violence against women
Why has it become normal to dehumanize women in India?
Two years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a girl was molested on the streets of Delhi in front of a crowd. The video went viral—as did the spectacle of a mob of men falling upon the woman and the police thrashing the rabid mob with lathis (batons) like a pack of dogs.
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October 08, 2012 | Cara Hoffman | Feminism, International, Violence against women
No more moments of silence: How do we get from 'Take Back the Night' to 'Taking Down Rape Culture'?
On October 4, I gave the keynote address at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, for “Take Back the Night,” an international yearly march that began in the 1970s to protest violence against women. This is a version of that address.
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April 26, 2012 | Karestan C. Koenen | Feminism, Misogyny
'Do I give off a slut vibe?' A professor addresses sexism in the Ivy League
“You smell soooo good, I could just eat you up.” “Here, sit on my lap.” “No, mine!” “I get her first!” “Putting him alone in a room with a woman is like giving an alcoholic a bottle of booze—he just can’t help himself.”
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April 06, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Feminism, Misogyny, Violence against women
Q&A: How Susan Brownmiller fought the media on rape in war, and won
Back when the media was writing about the rape of a woman in war by describing the shape of her buttocks, Susan Brownmiller was busy preparing her offensive to change how we talk about this atrocity.
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February 26, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism, Online harassment
A hacker told me to return to the kitchen; I didn’t go
It’s been an interesting couple of days. Gloria Steinem (our project’s founder) and I wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about what we’re calling the “cult of masculinity” and its role in rape in conflict and gang violence. The reaction to the op-ed, however, wasn’t pretty.
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February 22, 2012 | Cara Hoffman | Feminism, Media, Violence against women
Bringing the war home: How perpetrators from the U.S. to DRC get away with rape

I worked for many years as a reporter in upstate New York, where I covered local news like school board meetings and did features on things like watercolor exhibits at one-room libraries in one-traffic-light villages.

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February 15, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism, Violence against women
Where do men stand in all this?

Let’s blame men. Many of us do—many women and even men blame men for the mass rape of women in war. It’s easy to point our fingers and name the perpetrator. But what if we were to step back and ask how men can actually be part of the solution? It requires a couple of basic assumptions.


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