When my elder daughter, now 17, decided in Grade 6 that she wanted to attend a school social, we had to have a long talk.…
Posts published in “Gender violence”
If indeed we are one with the victims of the Orlando shooting, then surely we ought to be one with the victims of various violations…
The most harrowing book I have read is the one I have just finished, the recently published memoir-journal, A Mother’s Reckoning, by Sue Klebold, parent…
Like many people, Baleka Mbete was shocked by Judge Mabel Jansen’s online comments about black people, and responded by saying that rape is not part…
By Pierre Brouard When Caitlyn Jenner recently visited the Academy for Young Writers, an LGBTI-friendly school in a working-class New York neighbourhood, she was expecting…
Mabel Jansen’s comments rightly caused outrage this week. Unfortunately there have been a few that have come out in her defence (lingering in the comment…
By Esmeralda Sayagues Several South African universities have recently been rocked by student protests deploring the high incidence of campus rape and sexual violence. The…
Rape is not something that can be avoided by good behaviour. Rape is not something that is brought about by a woman’s “bad” behaviour. Rape…
To law falls the privilege of demarcating and controlling a particular territory as its own. That which it cannot, or will not, claim is pushed…
This post is written from a position of deep respect. I have followed Charlene Smith’s writing and activism for years, and have nothing but admiration…