Tag: harassment

Violation

By Elsa Roberts

On August 5, 2014

When I first felt a compulsion to write a piece like this is difficult to pinpoint, but when it began to take shape was today, after I began reading Roxane Gay’s new collection of essays titled Bad Feminist. In short sentences, layered throughout her essays, she evokes her own experience with sexual violence, how it […]

Afternoon Inqueery , Cissexism , Feminism

AI: Harassment Where There Shouldn’t Be Harassment

By Aretha

On July 7, 2013

Last week, there was a Slutwalk in the city where I leave. It was the first one I was able to attend, and came in a week marked by various protests and public manifestations here in Brazil, which made

Bullying

This Bullying Bullshit is Bad for the Brand

By Yessenia

On June 26, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk about sexual harassment from the obvious angles: how it’s bad for those targeted specifically (because barf, who wants to deal with some skeezy dude all up in yo

What if everyone did that?

By Yessenia

In Bullying , Skepchickism

On June 18, 2012

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about sexual harassment at atheist conferences such as TAM, of the issue of unrelenting bullying of those, especially women, who speak out against it, and the vast room for improvement in how conference organizers discourage harassment and handle complaints. Ophelia Benson picked apart this article by Dr. […]