Posts tagged ‘sexual assault’

Words and Offense: Of course slurs are still bad… Offense is just not the reason why. Systemic oppression, concept association and a phenomenon known as hostile tagging (where the phrase either tags a person as ...

This is a guest post by Jacinta Richardson. Jacinta runs Perl Training Australia and is a strong supporter of making IT more friendly to everyone. This is an edited version of a mailing list post. ...

This is a 101 post and all of the links here are fairly well known to ‘net feminists, but Noirin being assaulted has caused newcomers to wonder what they can do to help create a ...

Warning: this post discusses sexual assault and links to both a survivor account and to hostile comments. Noirin Shirley’s post A hell of a time in which she describes her sexual assault at ApacheCon on ...

Spoiler warning: the last part of this spam spoils a scene in a very recent Doctor Who. There thus might be spoilers in our comments too. Two-wheel triumph: Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and ...

Via Hoyden who link to IO9′s post on the subject. When is rape not rape? When it’s a supervillain pretending to be Peter Parker and having sex with Parker’s roommate, who thinks she’s having sex ...

According to Technorati, blogging is male, old. A movie about Charles Darwin is too controversial for the US market. *headdesk* Less shy of controversy, New Zealand YA author Karen Healey has written about finding cultural ...