Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 5, 2009. "After googling the gang rape story in Richmond and reading comments on blogs, it just leaves me sickened and really sad."
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 2, 2009. In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones’ Halliburton/KBR co-workers gang-raped her while she was working in Baghdad.
RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 21, 2009. After insurance agent Chris Turner was raped, she went under cover to find out if her treatment would make her next insurance policy an impossible dream.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. October 21, 2009. By taking anti-AIDS medicine after a rape, Christina Turner discovered that she had made herself all but uninsurable.
Sady Doyle, Comment Is Free AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 16, 2009. The horrifying case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who was allegedly gang raped in Iraq shows how corporate interests take priority over human life.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. October 15, 2009. That John Mayer is a asshole is not news. Still, it takes a special kind of asshole to give an interview that warrants the title: "John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us."
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. October 7, 2009. It only addresses a small part of the continuing blatant disregard for women's human rights as a result of U.S. military actions.
Little Light, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2009. The message right now seems to be: If you have enough money, talent, and celebrity friends, you should just be left alone to rape underage girls and get away with it.
Yifat Susskind, RH Reality Check. September 14, 2009. We can't just airdrop women's rights programs into embattled communities -- we must team up with all the women already helping themselves.
Ben Protess, Emily Witt, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. August 11, 2009. Rape is not something you should budget for. Yet some rape victims, unlike victims of other crimes, have to pay for basic evidence collection.
Matt Kelley, The Innocence Blog AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 3, 2009. Timothy Cole was convicted of raping a Texas student in 1985. He died in prison an innocent man. Now the victim in the case is speaking out.
Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast. August 3, 2009. Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 22, 2009. You can't claim to care about discouraging rape if your main priority is making sure you don't lose rapists as repeat customers.
David Smith, The Guardian. June 20, 2009. The country is notorious for having one of the highest levels of rape. Only a fraction are reported, and few lead to a conviction.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Huffington Post. June 17, 2009. Rape is vicious, cruel, painful and damaging. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. But from the way our media treats rape, apparently I do.
Nicholas L. Syrett, National Sexuality Resource Center. June 4, 2009. Frat houses are a haven for a masculinity that takes sexual conquest as one of its defining characteristics. But frats have not always been this way.
Staff, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 30, 2009. The Pentagon lied when it said "None of the photos in question depict the images that are described in that article." Shocker.
Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. May 30, 2009. This is probably exactly what the photos show, because it happened. The same-sex crimes against detainees have been documented.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. May 22, 2009. Steven Green and Uday Hussein both committed the same crime, so why is the media's treatment of them so different?
Gail McGowan Mellor, Women's Media Center. May 20, 2009. Four U.S. soldiers have been convicted for the brutal killing of Abeer al-Janabi and her family -- and now the full story is public.
