sexual assault

Louie C.K. and the Virtues of Realism

June 1, 2015 by fritztucker

On the hit show Louie, aside from a token, comedic clip of fantasy in each episode, realism rules the roost. Louie C.K.’s dedication to portraying the struggles of a single-father and stand-up comedian in NYC in a realistic fashion leaves the show, much like real life, somewhere between a comedy and a drama.

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: art, books, crime, ethics, film, gender, lit, literature, love, New York City, rape, sexual assault, sexuality

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Secretive, but not Secret

May 28, 2015 by fritztucker

In 2012, one of my best friends from college, Angel Perez, was illegally detained by members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), taken to their ‘black site’ in Homan Square, and sexually assaulted with a pistol, at which point he agreed to help carry out a sting operation on a drug dealer. For years, Angel has repeatedly turned down millions of dollars in settlement money in order to avoid a gag order, in order to tell his story to the […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: civil rights, crime, ethics, History, Homan Square, law, politics, rape, sexual assault, social justice, technology

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The haunting Kiss of the Fur Queen

March 27, 2015 by William Eaton

Sometimes you read a story so beautiful it stays in your head for days, and you keep going back to it, trying to understand how it got such a hold on your imagination. Kiss of the Fur Queen is that kind of story. Tomson Highway’s heartbreaking semi-autobiographical novel is about two Cree Indian brothers, Champion and Ooneemeetoo, who spend the early years of their childhood on a reservation in Northern Manitoba. Baptized Jeremiah and Gabriel, they are sent to a […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: childhood, homosexuality, sexual assault

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International Women’s Day

March 9, 2015 by fritztucker

It’s popular for leftists this time of year to point out the (debatable) fact that International Women’s Day was originally known as International Working Women’s Day. I’m all for intersectional studies, and believe that the world would benefit from examining a different intersection of oppression every day. Insofar as there is going to be a Labor Day, a Black History Month, and an International Day of Persons with Disabilities, however, I’m glad that there’s no “Working” qualifier in International Women’s Day anymore. Women of […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: capitalism, civil rights, gender, History, politics, pornography, rape, sexual assault, sexuality, technology, women

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Searching for the Right Words to Stop Rape

December 13, 2014 by William Eaton

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

Silenced at Harvard: The Faculty’s Response to Sexual Assault on Campus

November 22, 2014 by William Eaton

[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

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I Pledge: That These Hands Will Not Hurt

October 18, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] Domestic Violence Awareness Month (which happens to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month…because there are only so many months to divvy out) has brought minimal discussion in my neck of the woods, so I jumped at the opportunity to volunteer at an event hosted by NC State’s Women’s Center in Raleigh this week. “These Hands Don’t Hurt” is a nation-wide project, often occurring on college campuses, that involves students stamping their painted hand prints on a banner symbolizing their […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: domestic violence, girls, sexual assault, women

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“It’s On Us”: Carrying the Weight of Sexual Assault

September 20, 2014 by William Eaton

The Obama Administration has released another Public Service Announcement against sexual assault, this time with the slogan “It’s On Us.” “To stop sexual assault, to get in the way before it happens, to get a friend home safe, to not blame the victim, to look out for each other, to not look the other way, to stand up, to step in, to take responsibility…” Their previous star-packed PSA featured the slogan “One is Too Many.” It notably featured an all male […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: sexual assault

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Putting Boundaries on Blurred Lines

September 6, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] Last year Robin Thicke released his hit single “Blurred Lines,” a song that sparked a great deal of controversy in addition to a great deal of twerking. I wish that Thicke’s song had at least a few quotable lines to bring some attention to a discussion of “blurred lines,” and the truly complicated nature of it, but alas, he gives us little to work with. <I hate these blurred lines/I know you want it/But you’re a good girl/The way you grab […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: NPR, sexual assault

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