All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women… All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men’s prey.
rom farmwork to the halls of Congress, gender-based violence and harassment is not just misconduct. It’s a widespread workplace hazard, even if federal law fails to treat it as such.
The recent sexual misconduct allegations against House Representatives Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzalez, the sexual abuse allegations tied to Cesar Chavez, and the hundreds of men named in the Epstein Files all reveal a hard truth: Our institutions have failed to protect women from the systemic violence they face.
... full articleFew people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn’t believe it myself if I hadn’t done so much investigating.
How is information made legitimate, and when is it appropriate for journalists to introduce skepticism? What happens when only one side of a conflict is given the legitimate voice, always repeated and rarely questioned, even when those sources have proven many times to have promulgated lies?
Military studies scholars and analysts understand that there is always a long genesis of historical, political and economic factors that can eventually erupt into conflict. In many ways, US establishment media seemed unwilling or unable (but likely both) to narrate a more complex, historically accurate account of the war on Gaza.
... full articleThe G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.
I’d also have to be tested annually for tuberculosis and hepatitis, dangerous diseases that can take hold much more quickly when you’re immunocompromised.
Thankfully, all my blood tests came back normal. I could start my new treatment regimen.
If there were ever going to be a time that I’d test positive for tuberculosis, I assumed it would be that first test I took in July 2020. I’d spent time abroad in rural Morocco, Nicaragua, and China while an undergraduate student, all parts of the world with much higher rates of TB than the United States.
... full articleAnger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.
Saturday will mark one year since the death of Virginia Giuffre, one of the first women to surrender her anonymity, detail her experiences and publicly call for criminal charges against convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. For other Epstein survivors such as Liz Stein and Jess Michaels, Giuffre’s public reckoning made it possible to finally name what had happened to them.
“I saw myself in Virginia, in [Epstein survivor] Maria Farmer, in all of them,” said Danielle Bensky, who was pulled into Epstein’s orbit when she was 17. “And I thought: if they can be victimized, anyone can be. I was not alone. I finally understood that we were not going to be silent any more.
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