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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3105502/Gay-man-forced-sex-MOTHER-lesbians-raped-brothers-cure-homosexual-shocking-trend-Indian-families-desperate-straight-children.html Corrective rape is a term that can only be described as a hate crime. The act of corrective rape involves individuals being raped because of their sexual orientation in an effort to turn a homosexual into a heterosexual.  This article focuses on individuals being forced to have sex with family members because of their sexuality … Read more

HBO’s series “Game of Thrones” is in the spotlight after many critics were not happy with the show airing a rape scene and incorporating other acts of sexual violence.   The show diverged from a book series by George Martin who did not include such assaults in the book but was added to the show by … Read more

Sexual Violence against the LGBTQ community is often unreported. Sexual Assult – LGBTQ

I was in extreme shock when I found out that a record of 14 homicides of LGBT people have been reported so far in 2015. Mind you, its only June and although this article was posted in April; that’s still horrific news. In past years, in 2013 for example; there were 18 documented LGBT homicides … Read more

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/caitlyn-jenner-comes-out-and-republicans-fear-the-culture-war-is-lost/2015/06/04/aa8ccbbe-0ade-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html Within this article by The Washington Post the author writes how this past week has looked since Caitlyn “Bruce” Jenner’s coming out. With much support from President Obama and others in the public eye the republican party didn’t have anything to say this week, even though Jenner claims to be apart of their republican … Read more

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/04/18/trans-feminism-theres-no-conundrum-about-it/ This article is related to our recent discussions and lessons about intersectionality, trans gender violence, and misogynist views, but most importantly about how trans feminism is a debatable submovemet within feminism.  I found this article to be enlightening while providing different approaches and thoughts on the “third wave” feminist movement and how trans people … Read more

This article looks at the steps various Latin American countries have been taking to end domestic violence and femicides. It first looks into Columbia and the changes they have been making inn a country where every four days a women was killed by her partner. Most of the population opposed change, but the government pressed … Read more

Ray Rice This article discusses the well known case of former NFL Running Back, Ray Rice. Ray was given the option to complete a pretrial intervention program instead of doing hard time for  his actions against his now wife. For those of you who haven’t heard of this story last year Ray Rice was filmed … Read more

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/argentines-hold-mass-rallies-domestic-violence-150603234015925.html In recent news, there have been a great number of marches and protests taking place in Latin America. The most recent march took place in Argentina this week. These marches were led by the Argentinian President, Christina Kirchner and fútbol mogul, Lionel Messi. The country was shocked and infuriated at the death of a … Read more

New reports have recently surfaced which involve Josh Duggar, eldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of the popular TV show “19 Kids and Counting”, molesting 5 young girls, 4 of which were his sisters when he was around 14 years old. Jim Bob and Michelle recently sat down with Megyn Kelly of Fox … Read more