There is a middle school here in the Austin Independent School District that is making the news because of a report of sexual assault. While taking the case seriously, the news reporters, at least, are comforted that this is an unusual report.
I have had too many AISD graduates crying in my classrooms and my office [...]
Gang rape, pulling a train, gang bang, serial sex. These painful words that hurt, following or preceding or completely apart and separate from the acts they describe.
And then that one word that looms so large: SLUT.
And the smaller ones words that follow: she wanted it, she asked for it, dresses like a whore, I knew [...]
Last March I wrote a post about preventing rape through sex education. It just got a new comment, so I went back and read my way through it again.
I recently used the story I described in that post of a date rape told from two very different perspectives in a college classroom. We had a [...]
