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How to Avoid Being Named a Perpetrator of Sexual Assault

Check out this slam poem by Lisa B, from the Vancouver Poetry Slam Finals (2013). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAY-kedcTO0

In the News (Jan. 18, 2014- Jan. 24, 2014)

Oh my, the White House Council on Women and Girls gave Obama a report about sexual assault. Working on Yale’s sexual assault problem. Someone suggested the IRS should be able to decide if a woman…

In the News (Jan. 11, 2014- Jan. 17, 2014)

There is a rape on Downton Abbey – and the rest of the season promises to focus on the husband’s reactions, rather than those of the survivor. A Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is blasted by RAINN for a…

Where we’ve been and How We can move forward in the Fight against Human Trafficking

This post, in it's original form, was published last year at Voices Against Violence Project. By Becky Owens Bullard Tomorrow, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and the month of January has been…

In the News (Dec. 7, 2013- Dec. 13, 2013)

Michigan legislators have passed what some new outlets are calling “rape insurance” – a law regulating that women need separate riders on their insurance plans for abortions, even in the case of rape or incest.…

Handle on Scandal, how a tv show deals with sexual assault

By Kristine Ives, CCASA Blogger Once again, we see a prime time television show take on sexual assault as a story line. In a recent episode of Scandal entitled, "Everything Coming Up Mellie," the First…

In the News (Nov. 15, 2013- Nov. 22, 2013)

Sexual assault by the numbers. High school students walk out of an assembly after a speaker objectifies and slut-shames women. The Central Park Five are waiting – and hoping – to speak to another woman…

Book Review: Live Through This

by Liz N. Clift, Communications Intern at CCASA Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault – incest. [From the book jacket]: From the outside, Coley Sterling’s life seems pretty normal…whatever that means. It’s not perfect…

In the News (Nov. 2, 2013- Nov. 8, 2013)

Undocumented women might not be reporting the sexual harassment they face because they’re afraid of deportation. Maybe the fact that NPR is talking about this will help bring their plight into the public mind, and…

In the News (Oct. 25, 2013- Nov. 1, 2013)

Liz, our intern, has seen a lot of news about the difference between men's and women's Halloween costumes (sexy clownfish, anyone?), because October. She was glad to learn about this article by Cosmo that discusses…