It’s not “alleged” if there’s no allegation
Noticing that "alleged" crops up in news stories where it makes no sense at all, D H Kelly argues that this habit among journalists is harmful to rape survivors
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The violence in silence
Zoe Louise Tongue reviews The Anatomy of Silence, a collection of essays on experiences of rape and sexual violence, which explores the silence that still exists around rape culture even in the era of #MeToo
Reporting on rape culture
Charlotte Barnes reads Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture – a collection of accounts of rape and sexual assault edited by Roxane Gay – and finds it painful and troubling but also timely and necessary
An end to feminism?
Josie Davis reads What Women Want by Ella Whelan and can’t resist writing a pointed response piece about the book that suggests that “feminism must end”
Calming down in Camden
The F-Word interviews some of the artists taking part in the ‘Calm Down Dear’ festival
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: part two
Here are The F-Word’s second set of reviews of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe covering comedy and theatre
A dangerous kind of forgiveness
Taryn de Vere reads South of Forgiveness by Thordis Elva and questions whether the author’s personal account of ‘forgiving’ her rapist sets an unhelpful and problematic precedent
The rise and rise of lad culture on campus
Chloe Price is alarmed by the increasing misogyny and sexist attitudes of male students, and calls for urgent action to make women safer at university
We need to change the way we frame sexual violence
Some women don’t realise they are sexually assaulted until later due to internalised sexism, writes Louisa Adjoa Parker
Not guilty does not mean innocent
The overturning of Ched Evans’ rape conviction isn’t just an exception, it’s a threat to the fabric of institutions that campaign to protect women, writes Rashida Islam
The F-Word stage blog: October 2016
The F-Word's round-up of what's happening in the world of comedy and theatre in October
My rapist walked free
As only 6% of reported rapes end in a conviction, an anonymous contributor tells her harrowing story
Never asking for it
Kat Wootton hails Kate Harding’s new book as an important part of a struggle against rape culture
“We need to be constantly fighting. We need to be raising our voices”
Asking For It author Louise O’Neill talks to Gemma Fraser about rape culture, society’s fear of female sexuality, and how it feels to be the rising star of feminist fiction
Gone Girl: condemned or hailed?
David Fincher's Gone Girl, adapted from the novel by Gillian Flynn, has been simultaneously condemned as a misogynistic portrayal of women and hailed as the birthplace of a feminist icon. Lily Kendall investigates: does it deserve either of these accolades?
One step forward, two steps behind
Following on from Sara Yasin's retrospective look back at Dawson's Creek, Melissa Dunne revisits The X-Files and discovers a few feminist sticking points
No, no, no: pick-up artists and rape manuals
Philippa responds to a pick-up artist's attempt to teach men how and why they should ignore a woman's lack of consent
