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Posts Tagged ‘sexual violence in war’

  • February 14, 2013
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One Billion Rising

February 14th is One Billion Rising, this year’s iteration of V-Day, a campaign against sexualized violence founded by the playwright Eve Ensler. The idea of One Billion Rising is basically that people get together and perform a dance called “Break … Read more →

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  • February 9, 2013
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You Have Nightmares? Good.

Laura Murphy, a parent from Fairfax County, Virginia, is lobbying her school board to remove Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved from their curriculum. Evidently her high school senior son had nightmares after reading the book, and she decided it wasn’t appropriate … Read more →

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  • January 26, 2013
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Foreigners are Scary

Kathleen Parker has an article up in the Washington Post arguing against the end of the combat ban. I’m not going to go through the whole thing, but I wanted to address a couple of points. The first is the … Read more →

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  • January 25, 2013
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Women Have Always Been Casualties of War

The feminist bugbear has been summoned! Oh, that we were fated to live through such a time, that the precious flower of womanhood is sent to the front lines. So naturally I have a few points to make. The first … Read more →

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  • January 16, 2013
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Sexual Violence Around the World

*descriptions of violence* I’ve linked to the Women Under Siege project before, but I’d like to highlight their work. They describe themselves as “an independent initiatve documenting how rape and other forms of sexualized violence are used as tools in … Read more →

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  • November 2, 2012
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Congolese Doctor Attacked for Treating Rape Survivors

From Lauren Wolfe at The Atlantic: On the evening of October 25, a handful of men carrying guns stormed the house of a Congolese doctor in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The unknown men conducted about a half an hour’s … Read more →

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