A conversation with feminist author Kate Harding about the power of #YesAllWomen
Tag: Rape
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Blurring the hookup
Dan on giving and acknowledging consent, resuscitating a dead sex life, and rolling with the kinks.
Posted inFilm
After Tiller: A story in three parts
The documentary After Tiller looks at third-trimester abortion.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A little help from Dan’s friends
Advice this week—on rough fantasies and shitty relationships—comes from author Daniel Bergner and blogger-activist Chris Savage.
Posted inArts & Culture
Don’t Kiss Me: Flash-in-the-pan fiction
Formal experimentation overshadows real emotion in Lindsay Hunter’s Don’t Kiss Me.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Porn = incesticide?
Dan on incest fantasies, an overweening mom, and a disability fetish.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Should Mom buy Playboy for her kid?
Dan on a cross-dresser in a nursing home, drunk straight girls making out, and a kid’s developing porn connoisseurship.
Posted inArts & Culture
Who’s to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich assigns easy blame for a tough problem.
Posted inBlogs
What difference does it make why Oscar Pistorius shot her?
Deep thinking about Oscar Pistorius and South Africa
Posted inBlogs
Not only in India: Red Line station rape
Delhi has a rape crisis, but the official statistics say things are worse in Chicago
Posted inBlogs
Abortion was the most important election issue for women, but not really
We needed to consider abortion as we vetted our next president. It’s just that not everyone seems to understand why
Posted inBlogs
The eternal sunshine of Todd Akin
Republicans think Todd Akin makes them look bad. They’re right.
Posted inFilm
The Invisible War and the enemy within
Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War exposes rape in the U.S. military
Posted inNews & Politics
The misunderstood sex offender
Laws geared toward the most rare of sex crimes fail to address the most common