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#womenslives: “I’ve never seen a poster giving tips to stop me being potentially run over by a motorist” – @FeministIre
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 4, 2016The dark, lurking horror of parenting girls (and what we’re teaching them about their bodies). @FeministIre (emphasis added, as always):So, with this in mind what are we teaching girls about that? Are...
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#todayin: rape culture
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 31, 2016In the week leading up to Christmas, I had a lot of festive-type things on my to-do list. Purchasing gifts, finally putting up the tree, and preparing to go away to visit family. But that’s not what I...
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#womenslives: “Rape: I was waiting for it to be my turn”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 23, 2016The author of this piece prefers to remain anonymous.Rape. I always felt like it was going to be a case of when it happened to me and not if. I was 11 when I first heard a survivor’s story from a frie...
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#womensstories: “It all started in August last year when Scott was approached…”
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / March 10, 2016It all started in August last year when Scott was approached by a local who told her about two women who were alleging that a member of the Peace Corps had assaulted them. Scott reported the allegat...
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#womenslives: From Emma Gray on the Huffpo
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 20, 2016From Emma Gray on the Huffpo (emphasis added): On Friday afternoon, a judge ruled against Kesha’s request to be released from her contract with Sony. That contract commits the 28-year-old pop star to...
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#womenslives: violence against women and technology
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 11, 2016Anastasia Powell (Senior Research and ARC DECRA Fellow, Justice and Legal Studies, RMIT University) on violence against women and technology. There are some useful stats too, for those who like/ need ...
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#research: Exposure to nature may reduce crime, strengthen communities (on @newrepublic)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 22, 2015As urbanization, population growth and the rampant destruction of the natural world increase, human beings have become more and more isolated from nature—and at a significant cost. Spending time in n...
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#research: New report on intimate partner violence among LGBT people
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 12, 2015The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, a coalition cordinated by the New York-based Anti-Violence Project, has just released its 2014 report on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-...
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#womensstories: Pregnant Behind Bars: How Expectant Mothers’ Lives are Under Threat
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / October 26, 2015For more in this series, see In These Times. Write-up below from msmagazine.Imagine being pregnant and hungry. Always hungry. Now imagine being hungry and locked in a room, unable to access food, for ...
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#todayin: misogyny: Mass Killings in the US: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 12, 2015This is a really well put together post about the links between (toxic) masculinity and mass killings in the US. I didn’t know before reading it that most victims of mass killings are women. I d...
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#research: women, particularly women of colour, bear costs of mass incarceration
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 17, 2015A groundbreaking new report (from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design) surveyed former prisoners and their families in 14 states* and found that the tr...
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#research: The Juvenile Justice System is Failing Girls
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 28, 2015This piece is about girls in the US but the same issues apply here in Britain. Young girls who come into contact with the criminal justice/ juvenile justice system here are also more likely than boys ...
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#womenslives: Prisons that withhold menstrual pads humiliate women and violate basic rights
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 28, 2015Everyone laughed when Piper Chapman emerged from the shower during the first season of Orange Is the New Black with bootleg shoes made of maxi pads – and inmates do sometimes waste precious resources ...
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womensstories: ‘I came to the UK and I was turned into a prostitute’
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 24, 2015Ellie: ‘Putting trafficked people in prison – that is the worst part of it’When Ellie, 32, describes the first part of her life, she races through the disturbing details in a neutral tone; the problem...
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#todayin: rape culture: #research: Study: one in 10 male college students have committed rape
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 17, 2015Building upon findings from a previous study which found that 63% of campus rapists were repeat offenders, a new study has found that “only” one-quarter of college men admit to rape more t...
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#womensstories: ““Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized…”
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 16, 2015“Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized, reinforcing the sexual abuse to prison pipeline…. The most common crimes for which girls are arrested — including running away, ...
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#womensstories: Girls’ stories: the sexual abuse to prison pipeline
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 13, 2015From the report: Sasha was raped as a high school student. When news of the rape was circulated in social media, she was ridiculed by her classmates, making it impossible for her to feel safe at scho...
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE AND OFFENDING: A BROKEN SYSTEM
By feimineach / in #sociology, #thinkyblog / June 26, 2015On the 23rd of June, 2015, the Prison Reform Trust launched a review to examine why children aged 10 to 17 who are in care are more likely to offend than children who are not in care. [1] The Trust ac...
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#womenslives: Before You Watch “Orange is the New Black,” Here Are 5 Facts To Know about Pregnancy in Prison
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / June 11, 2015Season three of Orange is the New Black is (almost) here! While creator Jenji Kohan and the whole cast have been pretty tight-lipped about what we can expect this season, which starts streaming on Net...
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#research: New Study: 1 in 4 Women Have Family In Prison (US)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 29, 2015It gets worse. 1 in 2 Black women have an incarcerated family member.The Essie Justice Group writes:On May 20, 2015, the Du Bois Review published Racial Inequalities in Connectedness to Imprisoned Ind...
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