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THESE PHOTOS BRILLIANTLY FIGHT BACK AGAINST REVENGE PORN

Refinery29 Kasandra Brabaw 2/15/2017 Sharing nude photos and sex videos without permission counts as sexual harassment and abuse, and is illegal in some states. That should be obvious, but many people are somehow hazy on the principals behind what is commonly known as “revenge porn” — sharing intimate images of someone without their consent. In fact, a…

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Journal of College Admission Kathryn Drury Wagner 01/24/2017 College-age women are the demographic most likely to be victims of sexual violence, yet 80 percent of college students don’t report these incidents. What are colleges doing to address this issue, and what role does campus safety play in admission? When parents of today’s students were applying…

‘RAPE CULTURE’ IS MAINSTREAM

Indianapolis Star Joe Samalin 6/13/16 Stanford University student and Olympic hopeful swimmer Brock Turner was convicted on three felony counts for raping a 20-year-old woman on campus and was sentenced to only four months in a county jail because, as the judge put it, “A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.” Maybe…

THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN BROCK: WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO DISMANTLE RAPE CULTURE

Huffington Post Phoebe Schreiner 6/11/2016 By sharing her heartbreaking story, “Emily Doe” held up a cultural mirror for us all to see. Every harrowing detail gave us an ugly glimpse of the culture we live and breathe every day. In that mirror, we see the social and institutional norms and practices that enabled her rape, blamed…

EMILY DOE IS OUR PATH TO CULTURE CHANGE

Medium Mallika Dutt 6/10/2016 Emily Doe is angry. And yet, in the midst of such trauma, she created a thing of raw, powerful beauty. We may never know her real name, or hear from her again. But she is the protagonist of this story. She will go on, she will heal, and she will thrive, because…

‘BREAKTHROUGH GENERATION’ NEEDED TO END CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Thomson Reuters Foundation Astrid Zweynert 4/14/2016 OXFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mallika Dutt and Sonali Khan have an ambitious goal: to mobilize an entire generation to put an end to violence against women – and men are at the heart of their campaign. Their organization Breakthrough works in the United States and India, deploying…

BREAKTHROUGH AWARDED $1.25 MILLION TO CHALLENGE GENDER NORMS

MEDIA ADVISORY April 11, 2016 Human rights group Breakthrough receives Skoll Award, will use funds to catalyze one million social change actors NEW YORK — Today, the Skoll Foundation announced that global human rights group Breakthrough has been awarded $1.25 million as a 2016 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship recipient. Breakthrough works to combat gender-based…

TWO WOMEN ARE CALLING ON AN ENTIRE GENERATION TO END GENDER VIOLENCE

TakePart Britni Danielle 4/11/16 This profile is part of TakePart’s series highlighting the six winners of the Skoll Foundation’s Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, announced ahead of the Skoll World Forum, which takes place April 13–15. The award distinguishes leaders who are committed to driving large-scale change; each of the awardees’ organizations receives a $1.25…

VOICES OF BOYS: MESSAGE OF NON-VIOLENCE

postcrescent.com Katherine Lymn 2/28/2016 Gathered in the middle of the Horizons Elementary School library over lunch, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade boys talked about things that didn’t come naturally: Emotions. Relationships. Girls. But that was the point. The group, which kicked off earlier this month, is the youngest audience reached yet by local collaborators who want…