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In Case You Forgot, Rape Culture Is Alive And Well

Julie GersteinFebruary 7, 2013 //
India's Rape Culture
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India's rape culture is out of control. Read More »
After Sexual Assault
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Tips for reclaiming your sex life after being sexually assaulted. Read More »
I Was Raped
An account of sexual assault at Amherst College. Read More »
What Is "Space Rape"?
Adam won't leave Hannah's apartment and it gets creepy. Read More »

A flyer for a New School University screening of the new Jennifer Baumgardner documentary “It Was Rape,” which chronicles eight women’s experiences of being raped, was defaced by someone on the New School’s campus. The flyer — which was defaced with the phrase “And It Felt Great” — was spotted by a student in one of the campus buildings, taken down and then handed over to the school’s wellness center. That’s where it was then passed on to Rhiannon Auriemma, a graduate student at the university and a peer health advocate at the school’s Student Health Services. Keep reading »

Help Support “It Was Rape,” Jennifer Baumgardner’s New Documentary!

Daley QuinnAugust 17, 2012 //
I Was Date Raped
Amelia was date raped in college by a guy she liked. Read More »
Project Unbreakable
Victims hold signs with of words said before, during, or after the assault. Read More »
Should I Be Scarred?
This woman wonders if she should be more scarred by her date rape. Read More »
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"It Was Rape"

Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, each year, 207,754 men and women are victims of sexual assault and 54 percent of the instances were not reported to the police. With occurrences of rape this high, filmmaker and author Jennifer Baumgardner needs your help to end the silence through her forthcoming documentary film, “It Was Rape.” Keep reading »

“I Was Raped” Shirt Sparks Controversy & Discussion

Amelia McDonell-ParryApril 4, 2008 //

So, what do you think of this t-shirt? Kind of hard to read right? Made by writer, journalist, and feminist activist Jennifer Baumgardner (author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism And The Future), the shirt reads, in small print, “I Was Raped” on a small placecard inside an image of a safe. A follow-up to a shirt she made last year, which said, “I Had An Abortion”, Baumgardner hopes that the shirt will encourage women to be open about their experience with sexual assault and “divest themselves of some of the shame and secrecy of it.” Profiled in today’s New York Times, she also says, “By having an object like this” — a simple T-shirt — “that’s so mundane, it sort of forces it into everyday conversation….The wearer isn’t advertising that he or she was raped, but rather opening up to you, the viewer, and also saying that this is a small part of who he or she is.”

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