The Blame Game: How Rape Culture is Created – and Fought
Protesters march against sexual assault and victim-blaming in Toronto’s 2012 Slutwalk. Image courtesy of loretta.lime via Flikr. By Lindsey Addawoo Sexual assault is not anything new and unfortunately may never become a thing of the past, either. From country to country, in various forms of oppression under different regimes, governments and militaries, the patriarchy can … Read more
Toronto Campuses Fight to Stop Sexual Assualt
Image courtesy of Ed Van-West via Flikr. By Hannah Logan Hopes to eradicate violence against women on post-secondary campuses by forming liaisons between universities and outreach centres has led the government of Canada to provide nearly $4 million in funding to 21 organizations. This announcement was made at various universities and women’s centres across the … Read more
Jane Doe at Ryerson
By now, our collective denial, naiveté and sexism surrounding the realities of rape is well established and well critiqued. And while those critics – including bloggers – have taken the legal and justice systems to task for the pervasive slut shaming, it was journalism under the microscope yesterday at Ryerson University’s Atkinson Lecture. Jane Doe … Read more
Ryerson’s JHR stands for rape victims of Congo
By: Daksha Rangan Members of the Ryerson Chapter of Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and staff from its head office stood in front of the Ryerson Student Centre for 16 hours Nov. 5 — one hour for every 100,000 rape victims in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Every five minutes four women are raped … Read more
War on DeWar: Time to get Canadian and write some letters
By C. N. Westendorf Photo by ralphunden on Flickr The Crown vs. Rhodes case has been heavily featured in the media after Kenneth Rhodes was convicted of rape but given “conditional” (no jail time) sentencing, due to Judge DeWar’s opinion that not all rapists are equally malicious and culpable. In 2007, Canadian Parliament made conditional … Read more
Rape aXe: plastic just like a band-aid
By: C.N. Westendorf A rape victim once told Sonnet Ehlers she wished she “had teeth down there.” Ehler, a doctor in South Africa developed Rape-aXe in 2006, a condom-like device designed to be inserted inside the vagina like a tampon. The device painfully latches onto a penis with barb-like teeth, forcing immediate withdrawal and identifying … Read more
