"It is assumed that there are no special problems, or emotional or psychological costs in being a non-white adoptee in a white adoptive family and living in a predominantly white environment. Consequently, assimilation becomes the ideal as the adoptee is stripped of name, language, religion and culture, only retaining a fetishised non-white body, while the bonds to the biological family and the country of origin are cut off."

Tobias Hubinette, “Adopted Koreans and the development of identity in the ‘third space’” (2004)

“only retaining a fetishised non-white body” …and then put in environments where those non-white bodies are fetishised and consumed!!! not dangerous at all, right? is it a coincidence that i know so many korean adoptees that have been molested or subjected to sexual assault both in their families and in their communities? where we internalize the fetishisation of asian women and even commodify ourselves?

(via peaceshannon)

(via oscurovolpe)

"It would be a mistake to regard the institutionalized pattern of rape during slavery as an expression of white men’s sexual urges, otherwise stifled by the specter of white womanhood’s chastity. That would be far too simplistic an explanation. Rape was a weapon of domination, a weapon of repression, whose covert goal was to extinguish slave women’s will to resist, and in the process, to demoralize their men.

These observations on the role of rape during the Vietnam War could also apply to slavery: “In Vietnam, the U.S. Military Command made rape ‘socially acceptable’; in fact, it was unwritten, but clear, policy.” When GIs were encouraged to rape Vietnamese women and girls (and they were sometimes advised to “search” women “with their penises”) a weapon of mass political terrorism was forged."

Angela Davis, “Women, Race, & Class” (via socialismartnature)

(via ethiopienne)

darkjez:

tw: rape

iridessence:

sociolou:

sociolab:

This is on the front page of my school’s newspaper.  Someone wrote this on the steps of one of our buildings.

The full message says, “My rapist still goes here… will someone please listen to me?”

The university erased the message above shortly after it was discovered.  Students and faculty replaced it with, “We expect to work on a campus that supports victims.  We will listen!” and several faculty signed their names afterwards.

While I think it’s great that people are offering support/signing, I also think it’s fucked up that the original message was erased. Yeah, some might think it inappropriate or graphic or whatever, but having a rapist as a student (especially with people not knowing) is far worse in my opinion.

"TW Rape We have far more than 87,000 rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident. We have dots so close they’re splatters melting into a stain, but hardly anyone connects them, or names that stain. In India they did. They said that this is a civil rights issue, it’s a human rights issue, it’s everyone’s problem, it’s not isolated, and it’s never going to be acceptable again. It has to change. It’s your job to change it, and mine, and ours."

Rebecca Solnit, A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year (via thenationmagazine)

(via cocknbull)

(Source: chiefelk, via notvanishing)

"

TW for rape, rape culture Every time a discussion of rape happens, it’s a sure bet that the conversation will eventually turn to what the victim could have done differently. Even when the specific topic at hand is rape culture, and the ways that sexism and misogyny and sexual shame and entitlement and attitudes about masculinity and other toxic elements of the culture can make rape more likely and less likely to be punished… the conversation will eventually get turned to “what should rape victims do to keep from being raped.” Even when the topic at hand is ways that rape victims routinely get blamed for their rapes, the conversation will still eventually get turned to “what should rape victims to to keep from being raped.” And when this happens, and when people speak out against it, it’s almost certain that someone will say, “But that’s not part of rape culture! That’s just practical common sense! We want people to not get raped — and telling likely targets of rape how to keep themselves safe is the only effective way to do that!” (As happened in this comment thread.)

I don’t ever want to hear this again. Not just because it’s part of the exact victim-blaming rape culture we’re talking about. Not just because this business of rapists being just a handful of sociopaths — as opposed to active members of society who you might know — is bullshit. I don’t want to hear it again… because it’s just flatly not true.

Rape Prevention Aimed At Rapists Does Work: The “Don’t Be That Guy” Campaign » Greta Christina’s Blog (via tangledskein)

(via cocknbull)

tw: rape

doulaness:

What would happen if instead of making rape statistics about the victims, we made them about the perpetrators? I’d love to see some fucking posters that point out the fact that somewhere between 1 in 25 and 1 in 12 men are rapists. Or that 35% of men say they would rape if they knew they could get away with it.

I think we’d start seeing social change a lot faster if we starting pointing out that rapists are people we know and love; they are people in our families, our friends, our classmates, and our coworkers. And that is fucked up.

(via grrlyman)

fsufeminist:

vegetarianlyfe:

azelbasil:

So this is one of the men involved in the raping in Ohio. His facebook even says “Head Rapist at Rape Crew.” He was not charged at all.

If only what he said here wasn’t true. 

“This country loves football more than its own daughters”

I want you all to think long and hard about that.

What please tell me this isn’t real

(via gadaboutgreen)

reallydirtyfingernails:

feministartdegree:

(Kill Your Rapist via flickr)

hmm…okay!

(via fuckyeahwomenprotesting2)

tw: rape culture

strangegods:

christmasterrorist:

i can’t believe that in order for people to get on board to not rape women, we have to sexualize consent.

i can’t believe nobody realizes how fucked up it is to say “hey not raping people is sexy”

oh

projectunbreakable:

The poster reads:

“You know I love you, right?”

- Family member, rapist

—

Photographed in Chicago, IL on September 27th

—

Click here to learn more about Project Unbreakable. (trigger warning)

Facebook, Twitter, submissions, FAQ, donate to Project Unbreakable

Join our mailing list! Email kaelyn@project-unbreakable.org 

(via afrafemme)

"TW: rape

Do you think I’m overreacting? One in every six American women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. I bet you don’t think you know any rapists, but consider the sheer number of rapes that must occur. These rapes are not all committed by Phillip Garrido, Brian David Mitchell, or other members of the Brotherhood of Scary Hair and Homemade Religion. While you may assume that none of the men you know are rapists, I can assure you that at least one is. Consider: if every rapist commits an average of ten rapes (a horrifying number, isn’t it?) then the concentration of rapists in the population is still a little over one in sixty. That means four in my graduating class in high school. One among my coworkers. One in the subway car at rush hour. Eleven who work out at my gym. How do I know that you, the nice guy who wants nothing more than companionship and True Love, are not this rapist?

I don’t.

Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced

I thought this was an excellent piece, and was a very well-articulated way of explaining street harassment and the problems with it. I might look further into the statistics of rapists, because I think that is an important side of the equation.

(via thetrekkiehasthephonebox)

(Source: kateharding.net, via thatneedstogo)

(via wargasmmm)

fuckyeahanarchistbanners:

curcify yr rapist - YOLO // October 5, 2012 // Oakland, CA, USA // Feminist Vigilante March

(via nonbinarybaby)

strugglingtobeheard:

patrickandmarcus:

tw: abuse

June 1987, Madonna was rushed to the Cedars Sinai hospital for an X-ray after her then-husband—Sean Penn hit her across the head with a baseball bat. At the time, they had been having a heart-to-heart talk about reconciling.

Madonna did not make an official complaint because Penn was about to serve a short jail term for attacking a film extra and violating the probation he’d been given for punching a fan. It was a decision she would come to regret. In the late afternoon of December 28, 1988, Penn scaled the wall surrounding the Malibu house and found Madonna alone in the master bedroom.

According to a report filed by Madonna with the Malibu sheriff’s office, the two began to quarrel. Penn told her he owned her “lock, stock and barrel”. When she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric cord. Screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. Penn chased her into the living room, caught her and bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to shave her hair. Penn was “drinking liquor straight from the bottle” and the abuse went on for nine hours, during which he smacked and forced Madonna to perform a “degrading sex act” on him.

He went out to buy more alcohol, leaving Madonna bound and gagged. Some hours later, he returned and continued his attacks, then finally untied her. Madonna then fled the house and ran to her car. Penn ran after her and was banging on the windows of her Thunderbird while she spoke to police on her mobile phone. Fifteen minutes later, she staggered into the sheriff’s office.

OMG CHRIS BROWN IS STILL AT AWARD SHOWS, SEXISM, OMG

i never knew what he did was so extreme. that is torture and rape. what the fuck? disgusting.

(Source: madonnax)