Law and Order SVU

For as long as I can remember I have been a Law and Order buff. When ever theres nothing to do and a TV is staring back at me from the couch I know that there is some form of Law and Order on. Whether its Law and Order, Law and Order CI or Law [...]

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Don’t Be a Douchebag

Looking back on the work we did through the pins, posters and evolution of our thoughts on rape I truly feel like our campaign was and will continue to be a success next year. Personally, my views of rape have changed immensely. Like the majority of Tulane’s population, I did see rape as an issue [...]

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What Happened to me Last Night

So…At 3 a.m. last night, I was coming in from work. I parked my car in the spot directly in front of my house- I’d say about ten feet from the front door. My girlfriend and I got out of the car and began to walk towards the front door. Out of the shadows (dramatic, [...]

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Don’t Be a Douchebag

Hey guys, this is going to be a quick post since we’ve already discussed these signs in class, but the don’t be a douchebag signs have infiltrated facebook! I saw this posted last night- since I’m sure the link itself won’t work for everyone, I inserted the picture to the right. The facebook caption reads: [...]

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Rape as a Men’s Issue

My friend emailed me this article today. Not only am I SO proud that our class has raised enough of a stir that people outside of WMST351 are seeing things, making connections, and have a heightened awareness, but the article talks about rape as a men’s issue which is also something that we have been [...]

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Rape Survivors: Overlooked and Forgotten?

I wrote this post before our class discussion on the issue. I think I’m going to comment on it after I post it with my updated thoughts.  I just got my hands on this week’s Hullabaloo. WMST-351, we’ve been attacked. In the article Rape survivors: overlooked and forgotten, Alyson Paris invites readers to learn the [...]

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sorry-mom.com

I read this blog occasionally for a good laugh or to make me feel better about my own relationships and experiences with the other sex. When I was thinking about sorry-mom in relation to our class blog, the site struck me as slightly ridiculous. Why do we need a website to relay our bad experiences? [...]

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The Borders of Rape

We’ve been reading in class how borders affect activism. In the recent reading “invisible women” a group of women rely on their borders to construct their activist identity. They are Latina women from El Paso who, for the sake of defining their group, call on their identities as Mexican American women. The author says that [...]

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unreported rape

Sorry for the abundance of posts in a row but I thought everyone should know about this as well.  On February 25, a Loyola student was apparently raped in the back of a car after being struck in the head.  Perhaps most troublesome about this particular rape is that it happened during in broad daylight [...]

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Misplacing the blame

After the numerous class discussions regarding the recent local rapes, I thought everyone might be interested in reading a related article published in the Tulane newspaper entitled “TUPD, Gibson Respond to Rape”.  As implied by its title, the article talks about the ways Tulane is reacting to the current situation and the threat it poses [...]

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