The night started, as so many college nights do, with a red cup pressed into a hand. Ubiquitous at tail gates and parties, those bright plastic cups are a harbinger of carnival, of unleashing. The hand around the cup was mine. So begins New York Times writer Susan Dominus’ chronicle of her own experience with an unwanted sexual interaction at a college party, the sort that is so pervasive in the news of late. Her essay, Getting to ‘No’, describes […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: rape, sexual assault, women

[print_link]         [email_link] Last week I attended a lecture at Duke’s Women’s Center on Sexual Assault on College Campuses. It featured Dr. Kimberly Theidon, a former Harvard professor who was recently denied tenure and is suing the institution under the premise that her department did a complete u-turn on her viability for tenure after she began to speak out on behalf of students claiming they were sexually assaulted on campus. Theidon’s story brought to light the absence of […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: rape, sexual assault, women