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#guestpost: Implications of the Trump administration changing the definition of sexual assault – @kateharveston

Trump’s arrival at the White House did not inspire much hope for women’s rights activists, and unfortunately, his administration has not done much to change that. In one year, he has revoked the 2014...

#guestpost: The difference between emotional and psychological abuse against women – @kateharveston

In the United States alone, more than 20 people get abused by their partner every minute. In Ireland, one in five women has been abused by their partner. While most reported forms of domestic abuse ar...

#womenslives: this is the culture

I was 14, I was trying to catch the train home – I’d been to friends place after school. I had to walk through a group of guys who were sitting in the way: sprawled across the stairs at the train stat...

Anita Sarkeesian’s week of twitter harassment. Content warning for misogyny, gendered insults, victim blaming, incitement to suicide, sexual violence, rape and death threats.Ever since I bega...

Anita Sarkeesian’s week of twitter harassment. Content warning for misogyny, gendered insults, victim blaming, incitement to suicide, sexual violence, rape and death threats.Ever since I bega...

#research: Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest

Linked below is a PDF of the Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest, summarising the latest evidence on drivers of VAWG and what works to...

#research: Two thirds of women in the US have been street harassed

I’m surprised, really, that it’s as low as 65%. That could be indication of how normalised and “acceptable” street harassment has become. From feministing:A new study commissioned by Stop Street Haras...

#feminismisdead: Rape Culture is Very Real; We Are Not Hysterical

Don’t read the Time article unless you are particularly strong of stomach. I think I can speak for many people when I say reading the Time article ”It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria” by Caroli...

#research: Victim Blaming Others: Rape Myth Acceptance and the Just World Belief

This is an interesting study published in the journal of Feminist Criminology recently. It’s the about the extent to which rape myths are accepted (i.e. rape is normalised and excused) if individuals ...

#research: Violence against women: an EU-wide survey: main results report

This FRA survey is the first of its kind on violence against women across the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It is based on interviews with 42,000 women across the EU, who were asked abo...

#research: WHO report: 30% of women worldwide victims of domestic violence

A WHO report has shown that 30% of women worldwide are victims of domestic violence and that 40% of women killed worldwide are killed by an intimate partner.Link to the report: who.int and first few p...

#research: Violence against women in intimate relations: A contrast of five theories (journal article)

This is a good (methodologically and theoretically sound), and important, study.(The full text is available, if you would like it. Comment below etc.)Abstract:This paper explores the correlates of vio...