Links on Rape and Consent

Distancing Behaviors: Behaviors That Friends and Family Take To Distance Themselves From The Daily Realities of Rape

The last sentence in the section "The 'It Happened in the Past' Game" is particularly thought-provoking and leads, conveniently, to:

Enthusiastic Consent vs Objective Consent,

and

Rape, Enthusiastic Consent, and the Stoplight Problem.


EDIT: Links form Moria on rape in the Dem. Rep. of Congo.

http://care.ca/main/?en&drc_rape_story

http://care.ca/main/?en&drc_2008

More Links about Rape and Rape Prevention

More interesting links:


Despite the title, it's not totally awful and has some useful things to say:
What About the Men?? OR Why Misogyny Harms Male Rape Survivors


Ways of Seeing -- A small essay on The Male Gaze and how it gets internalized, etc.


Justice for Sex-Trade Workers -- A discussion of how our society (in this case, that of the UK) treats sex-workers' lives as valueless, among other things.


You Don't Own Her -- An article (sadly, not a very in-depth one) on conjugal rape.


From Get Real:
My Best Friend was Raped, What Can I Do for Her?


And a few from Scarleteen:

He's My Boyfriend, So How Could It Have Been rape?

Safer Sex -- For Your Heart -- about emotional well being in sexual situations.

How Can Men Know if Someone is giving Consent or Not -- Fairly self-explanitory.

ARTS and CULTURE in OTTAWA

So, passing on a message from Seanchaidh.


The City of Ottawa is looking to basically cut just about all of the municipal funding for Arts and Culture (that local galleries, museums, festivals, theatres, EVERYTHING) down to zero.

What the fuck???

Arts and Culture are what make a city worth inhabitting!!! (Duh...)

I've written to Diane Holmes (my city councelor) about this.

You should write your city councelor, too!

Follow this link to find out what else you can do!


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)