Originally published at Ms. magazine on December 26. I dreaded seeing David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In particular, I dreaded sitting through another graphic rape scene like the one in Swedish director Niels Arden Oplev‘s 2009 version of the film–a scene I described in my review as disquieting, intense and vicious. Hollywood being […]
Tag Archives: Sexual Violence
Is sexual violence against latina farmworkers a hate crime?
Media Consortium | Huffington Post | Ms. magazine This week, two high-profile trials involving the racially motivated murders of Latinos in Pennsylvania and Arizona are exposing the unsettling implications of growing anti-immigrant sentiment. But while antagonistic political discourse and incendiary policy are shown to provoke ethnic violence–correlating with a 52 percent increase in hate crimes–they […]
Buy A Girl, Before Someone Else Does…
Reposted from the Ms. blog Today in totally misguided philanthropy, we have “The Girl Store,” a presumably well-intentioned girl empowerment project that—for some utterly illogical reason—masquerades as a child pornography site. Head on over to The Girl Store and you’ll be greeted by shaky footage of a disheveled Indian girl smiling bashfully as an unknown cameraperson […]
Special Report: Sexual Assault and Abuse Rampant in America’s Immigration Detention Centers
Published by Campus Progress A year ago, the Obama administration touted the newly overhauled T. Don Hutto Residential Center as a model detention facility. Three years earlier, the facility, located in Taylor, Texas, had come under fire after news broke that a guard had engaged in sexual acts with a detainee—while her young son lay […]
