After one beating, Norris Jones went to her father’s house and shared what she was going through. “He looked at me and said, ‘What did you think marriage was?’”
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I Am Evidence: the shocking film on the truth about untested rape kits | The Guardian
In a new documentary, two film-makers bring to life the stories of sexual assault survivors let down by a fractured system
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‘Boyfriend loophole’: backlash after Oregon joins 23 states in curbing guns | The Guardian
The new law makes it harder for convicted domestic abusers to buy guns, but gun advocates say it will only breed confusion.
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The #MeToo Movement Looks Different For Women Of Color. Here Are 10 Stories. | Huffington Post
Some of the most affected have been left out of the movement, and it’s time we talk about it.
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Recy Taylor, Catalyst for Anti-Rape Activism in the Jim Crow South, Dead at 97 | The Root
Recy Taylor, whose story of sexual assault at the hands of six white men in 1944 is featured in the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, died at a nursing home in Abbeville, Ala., on Thursday morning. She was 97.
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Army’s rape of Rohingya women sweeping, methodical: AP | Al Jazeera
The rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s security forces has been sweeping and methodical, the Associated Press news agency found in interviews with 29 women and girls who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
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Music Mogul Russell Simmons Is Accused of Rape by 3 Women | The New York Times
Mr. Simmons, a powerful gatekeeper in the entertainment and media worlds, damaged careers and self-confidence with his pattern of sexual assault and harassment, the women say.
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Two Colleges Bound by History Are Roiled by the #MeToo Moment | The New York Times
ATLANTA — The fliers appeared suddenly on a crisp morning in early November. They were scattered among golden leaves on the grounds of Spelman and Morehouse, the side-by-side women’s and men’s colleges that are two of the country’s most celebrated historically black schools.
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First long-term home for teenage sex-trafficked survivors to open in Oakland | Oakland North
In a few months, Leah Kimble-Price will open the house she has been planning with her team—a home in Oakland that will serve sex-trafficked teenagers.
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Roxane Gay to edit anthology of ‘dispatches from rape culture’ | The Guardian
Not That Bad, which will include contributions from actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union, aims to address the routine levels of abuse faced by women
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