sexual assault Archives

Reporting on rape culture

Charlotte Barnes25 February 2019

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...

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Finding Sisterhood

Guest Blogger11 December 2018

The founder of a new app for women writes about why she created it...

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Who will believe thee?

Ellie Pilcher19 November 2018

Ellie Pilcher is blown away by the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Measure for Measure...

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Christine Blasey Ford’s legacy to survivors

Guest Blogger25 October 2018

Ford’s voice and testimony have given hope to survivors everywhere argues Willow Verkerk...

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Seduction for sale

Charlotte Barnes3 October 2018

Charlotte Barnes reviews Rachel O’Neill’s recent book on the ‘seduction community’ and is introduced to an industry seemingly built on misogyny and problematic attitudes towards women...

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I won’t stop writing about things that upset men

Guest Blogger21 May 2018

I’m not thinking about men’s feelings when I write because I don’t write for men, argues Jordan King...

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From pain to empowerment

Zoe Louise Tongue26 April 2018

Zoe Louise Tongue reviews 100 Women I Know, a book detailing accounts of sexual assault and rape from 100 women, finding it an emotionally difficult read but a necessary and powerful one...

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Calming down in Camden

Lissy Lovett14 January 2018

The F-Word interviews some of the artists taking part in the ‘Calm Down Dear’ festival...

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Thoughts on #metoo

Joanna Whitehead16 October 2017

Thoughts on the #metoo campaign...

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe: part one

Various Authors10 August 2017

Here are The F-Word’s first set of reviews of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe covering theatre, comedy, cabaret and variety...

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The secret lives of white middle class America

Nick Beard24 May 2017

Nick Beard is impressed with the nuanced way in which Big Little Lies deals with domestic violence and the emotional aftermath of rape...

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My rape wasn’t dramatic – but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t real

Guest Blogger17 May 2017

Our monthly guest blogger, Madeleine Pownall, welcomes the portrayal of rape in Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, and argues that lack of resistance does not constitute consent...

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The wrong kind of victim

Guest Blogger19 July 2016

Following the coverage of the Stanford university rape case, an anonymous contributor discusses her own experiences of sexual assault and the difficulties she faced when identifying herself as a victim of rape...

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‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice

Guest Blogger22 December 2015

It's our #festivefeminism month and Ellie Hutchinson asks why we have to put up with the now annual "don't get raped" messages from the police...

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How Corbyn broke the mould with women-only carriages

Guest Blogger10 September 2015

Helen Raymond argues that Jeremy Corbyn's support for women-only train carriages is more than a political gimmick and is likely to make travelling women feel safer...

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“We need to be constantly fighting. We need to be raising our voices”

Gemma Fraser9 September 2015

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...

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The false rape/assault accusation trope – a bit fishy and definitely not funny

Guest Blogger4 September 2015

Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer is unimpressed with Home and Away's recent use of the tired and potentially harmful false rape accusation trope ...

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Is this the most important book of 2015?

Gemma Fraser3 September 2015

Consent and victim-blaming in the age of the smartphone: we should all be talking about Louise O'Neill's Asking For It, says Gemma Fraser...

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