Despite Anti-Gay Graffiti, Media and Police Ask the Wrong Questions in Teen Athlete’s Murder

By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan I didn’t know Tayshana Murphy was gay. I’m from Harlem, and I like to think I’m tapped into important conversations among New York’s LGBTQ people of color communities. ...Read More

Penn State Teaches Rape Culture 101

A man sexually assaults children. Witnesses are appalled. But no one tells anyone outside their tight circle. The assailant is eventually accused of attacking eight boys. Yet members of the community ...Read More

Confession, Not Prosecution, For Bishop Who Let Alleged Abusive Priest Off the Hook

Ms. Blog readers will recall the recent indictment of Bishop Robert Finn of the Kansas City (Mo.)-St. Joseph’s Catholic diocese, making him the most superior member of the Roman Catholic Church ...Read More

Does Your Police Department Have a Rape Protocol? Mine Didn’t.

This story is about being inspired to take local action: what incited me, what I did about it and how you can follow suit. On Monday, my local paper of record, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), ran a ...Read More

What NYC SlutWalk Was, and What It Wasn’t

Union Square was packed when I arrived at this weekend’s inaugural New York SlutWalk. The crowd was mostly women, mostly young and mostly white. Clothing styles ranged from topless to scanty ...Read More

Newsflash: Single Mom Granted Clemency in Ohio

Kelley Williams-Bolar, the Ohio single mother of two who was convicted of a felony for using her father’s address instead of her own in order to get her children into what she felt would be ...Read More

Ode to My Father–And Against Violence

Twenty-five years ago to this day, August 26, 1986, my father was murdered in his law office by a former woman client who had stalked him and repeatedly asked him to run away with her. He had rejected ...Read More

The Violence Against Women Act Saves Money–And Lives

Under the guise of deficit reduction, politicians are taking a hacksaw to a number of women’s health and economic programs. Ironically, however, the same politicians are avoiding renewing an ...Read More

School District Allegedly Expelled 7th-Grader for Reporting Her Rape

The Republic School District in Springfield, MO, is facing a lawsuit for allegedly ignoring a young victim’s multiple rapes and then expelling her for reporting her attacker. The story is yet ...Read More

The Village Voice’s Numbers Game

This summer, the Village Voice published an “investigative” series on the issue of sex trafficking in the United States. Framed as a hard-hitting exposé uncovering the truth, the series ...Read More

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