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Sexual Assault
June 26, 2020
Jo Livingstone
I May Destroy You
Is About So Much More Than Rape
The latest series from Michaela Coel captures the contradictions of trying to make art in an age of corporate dominance.
May 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Ronan Farrow Is Not a “Resistance” Journalist
Ben Smith’s explosive column in The New York Times seizes on the reporter’s alleged lack of rigor, but mistakes his target for a movement.
May 9, 2020
Libby Watson
The Depressing Future of the #MeToo Movement
The radical promise of “Believe Women” has been an unintended casualty of the quickly fading Biden sexual misconduct controversy.
April 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Joe Biden’s Tired Feminist Shield
How Tara Reade’s allegations bring us back to a familiar cycle of denial and complicity
February 22, 2020
Nick Martin
The Police Knew Her. She Says They Still Didn’t Care She Was Raped.
A lawsuit against a police department filed by its own dispatcher speaks to the depths of the crisis of violence against Native women.
February 21, 2020
Matt Farwell
Let the Boy Scouts Die Out, Already
An Eagle Scout lays out how the organization was morally bankrupt long before it filed for Chapter 11 protection.
July 1, 2019
Magazine
Lidija Haas
#ETTU?
Notes on Cancel Culture
June 24, 2019
Laurie Penny
Why It Matters How Powerful Men Treat Women
A rape allegation for Donald Trump, a domestic abuse allegation for Boris Johnson, and a filmed assault by Mark Field—all in the same week.
May 18, 2019
Lucy Caldwell
Harvard Was Right to Fire Ron Sullivan
The ex-lawyer for Harvey Weinstein isn't a victim of political correctness or #MeToo excess. He put his professional brand above his students' welfare.
March 20, 2019
Farah Amjad
Making #MeToo Work in Pakistan
The movement has struggled to make an impact in a deeply patriarchal country. But a new generation of feminists is also shaking up the status quo.
December 3, 2018
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Benjamin Rachlin
Who to Believe
In cases of sexual assault, do requirements for corroborating evidence help or harm the pursuit of justice?
October 6, 2018
Roge Karma
We’re Still Living in the Boys’ Culture of Kavanaugh’s Youth
My recent college experience suggests that young men still behave as they did in the early 1980s.
September 28, 2018
Ryu Spaeth
How Republicans Stole #MeToo
They're speaking the movement's language, but in defense of Brett Kavanaugh.
September 27, 2018
Sarah Jones
Brett Kavanaugh plays the victim.
September 25, 2018
Sarah Jones
Bill Cosby is going to prison for at least three years for sexual assault.
September 25, 2018
Sarah Jones
Brett Kavanaugh’s broken-record plea: I want “a fair process.”
August 29, 2018
Sarah Jones
Betsy DeVos is set to weaken sexual misconduct enforcement on campus.
July 3, 2018
Kaila Philo
Former Ohio State wrestlers accuse Representative Jim Jordan of ignoring sexual abuse.
May 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
On #MeToo and Democrats’ Moral Authority
What National Review's David French gets wrong in arguing that progressives have lost the high ground on sexual harassment and assault.
May 15, 2018
Rachel Stone
A Video Game That Wants to Stop Sexual Harassment
Educators say a virtual world creates a comfortable zone for teenagers to learn about assault.
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