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“Prison industrial complex is a feminist issue because incarceration affects so many women’s lives” – @msmag azine

"Prison industrial complex is a feminist issue because incarceration affects so many women’s lives" - @msmagazine: The movement against the prison industrial complex remains a feminist issue because...

Ideological abolition: the university and the prison

"The university’s production of valuable subjects and the prison’s production of disposable subjects both rely on the idea that there is a hierarchy of human value. This hierarchy is deeply racialized...

Prostitution: why Swedes believe they got it right

Prostitution: why Swedes believe they got it right: “In her office, where she surveys the constant flow of evidence of sexual exploitation, Wahlberg believes that the Swedish way is the best chance o...

poll: 80% of respondents believe young people in danger of being sexually abused online

poll: 80% of respondents believe young people in danger of being sexually abused online: “Children are at risk of cyberbullying, sextortion – in which victims are blackmailed by threatening to post ex...

Sexual assault cases are our modern-day witch trials – @ESTBLSHMNT

By Hillary Di Menna on @ESTBLSHMNT: Mandi Gray is considered a deceptive mistress with an ardent thirst for exacting revenge against innocent men. She is known to partake in late-night merrymaking al...

What ‘Orange Is the New Black’ missed about the obstacles faced after prison @rewire_news

What 'Orange Is the New Black' missed about the obstacles faced after prison @rewire_news: This is not the first time that the show has treated release and reentry as something to be feared rather tha...

#womenslives: “I’ve never seen a poster giving tips to stop me being potentially run over by a motorist” – @FeministIre

@FeministIre (emphasis added, as always): So, with this in mind what are we teaching girls about that? Are we telling them to watch out for the man who lives next door/the older cousin/the guy you’ve...

Euro 2016 and domestic violence – @theparallelmag

@theparallelmag: Euro 2016 and Domestic Violence: With the Euro’s kicking off this week, police forces and charities from all over the UK are warning people about the rise in domestic violence that...

#criminalinjustice: Women of color and the prison industrial complex – @EvrydayFeminism

from @everydayfeminism. US-focused but top facts, here: 1. Women and Girls of Color are Funneled into the Prison Industrial Complex For years, education advocates have raised concerns about the “sc...

#inhaste: “Amber Heard, and the grotesque disparity in how men and women are treated in cases of domestic violence” – @salihughes

@salihughes on @ThePool: If only people were as appalled about women being used as punchbags, as they are about the possibility of men being taken for a ride, says Sali Hughes.  Imagine you’re in a p...

“I’m sexually attracted to people who have committed violent crimes,” she told me – @Josh_ua_Surtees, @vice

GOD IN HEAVEN. This is the patriarchy right here. (I don't know why but I am pretty sure about it.) OK, there's a belittling of teenage girls in this piece that might not sit right with everyone, and ...

“We need to move away from oppressive myth that rape and assault only happen in violent fits of rage” – @rolereboot

Content warning: rape and sexual assault @rolereboot: Every woman has been a little bit raped’: the complicated politics of ‘No’ - Elizabeth Skoski, @rolereboot (emphasis added, as always): We need ...

#todayin: misogyny: “Revenge porn so insidious and pernicious because one of the places where men still maintain power”

Well, men still maintain power in most places but revenge porn is an example of male violence against women at its most devious, abusive and destructive. #smashthepatriarchy @theguardian: What makes ...

Women’s services struggling to maintain feminist perspective in supporting women escaping male violence – @RoomOfOurOwn

This is an article that WEAVE  wrote for Parity in 2013. Still very pertinent for today. How is a lack of feminist analysis within domestic violence and contemporary services contributing to a reprod...

Campus assault: “Most likely attacker will be friend or acquaintance” – @conversationUK

On The Conversation: Andrea A. Curcio, Georgia State University Throughout the summer before my daughter left for college, I repeatedly warned her: never put a glass down at a party; use the buddy sy...

Campus rape: “Rape culture is created and enabled by patriarchy, which empowers men at the expense of women” – @conversationUK

On The Conversation: Elisabet le Roux, Stellenbosch University (and sort of follow-up to this piece from earlier: Campus assault: "Most likely attacker will be friend or acquaintance" - @conversationU...

We’re blind to an epidemic of domestic abuse

From the guardian (emphasis added): According to an analysis of Office for National Statistics crime data, an estimated1.4 million women in Britain suffered domestic abuse in the year 2013-14. (Men...

“This is rape culture” – Caitlin Roper on @feministcurrent

In 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...

“The worst abuse of all is being so far away from our families” – young prisoner on @Rewire_News

Beaver was just 14 years old when he was charged as an adult and sentenced to 48 years. He spent several years in four facilities across the state, which housed between 280 and 300 residents. “Anythin...

#womenslives: rape: I was waiting for it to be my turn – @thefworduk

The 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 fr...