Category: Politics

Prince Andrew’s Presence at the Coronation is a Shameful Dismissal of Sexual Violence Survivors

Kate Schneider June 5, 2023 0 Comments
“Take the titles away! And don’t turn up at the royal event just to keep your little royal fleecing going!,” the notorious British media commentator Piers Morgan exclaimed on air several weeks before the coronation of King Charles III. These statements from the Sky News Australia host were not directed towards the King’s brother, Prince Andrew, who was publicly accused of sexual assault...

Sexual Violence and the Police: Understanding the Institution that is Supposed to Protect Us

Jackson Diamond May 1, 2023 0 Comments
David Carrick, a former police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in the UK, was arrested in October of 2021. In January of 2023, he admitted to forty-nine offenses committed over a period of eighteen years, twenty-four of which were counts of rape. In total, Carrick has admitted to over eighty different instances of sexual misconduct. Unfortunately, David Carrick is not an example...

Dress Codes, Then and Now

Laura Browne November 9, 2022 0 Comments
I never really planned to become an educator, but it’s something I’ve found that I really love. I’m a teaching artist, focusing on theatre, improv, and public speaking.  I’m not that much older than the students I teach—around 10 years their senior at most, depending on whether they’re middle or high schoolers. Sometimes the generational gap between us seems shockingly small,...

From Small Town Mayors to Trump: Are We Holding Our Political Leaders Accountable for Sexual Assault?

Alyssa Henderson June 24, 2021 0 Comments
My local newspaper recently ran a week-long investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against the mayor of the small town, Windsor. While I initially found it odd that the San Francisco Chronicle would give the front page to this story while we’re still knee-deep in the middle of a pandemic, the more I thought about it, the more I understood and appreciated the Chronicle’s...