Imagine you’re shopping at your local grocery store, you then walk out to your car to find a sticky note on your windshield. This note was really a distraction, giving a kidnapper time to grab you and take you while you’re preoccupied with the note. Most human trafficking rings start by kidnappings or start by … Read more
Imagine walking down the street and being brutally assaulted, you ask your perpetrator why they are attacking you and they simply say, “because you’re a woman” then he kills you. In Latin America, this is a scenario that every woman fear will happen if she leaves the house. Femicide is described as … Read more
Female Genital Mutilation During COVID-19 By: Caison Bates In a world plagued by COVID-19, the fears involve social isolation, quarantining, or even hospitalization, but never was it thought that this pandemic would put an increasing number of young girls at risk for female genital mutilation (FGM). Due to COVID-19 related school closures, European experts estimated that … Read more
Students that attended the schools, Stone Bridge, Broad Run, and Riverside decided that they wanted to participate in a school walk out about a sexual assault incident that occurred at Stone Bridge High School. The recent incident involved a boy dressed as a girl (with a skirt) that sexually assaulted a girl in the girl’s … Read more
Indigenous women experience a lot of terrifying dangers, often for no reason other than their race and culture. Currently 4 out of 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women have experiences abuse and 1 out of 2 have experienced sexual abuse. Domestic violence rates are up to ten times higher for the Alaskan native women … Read more
I chose to write this post on the violence in the foster care system since my research paper will be on that. Violence in the foster care system is something that is very well known but most everyone, but it’s something that’s always overlooked. Children of all ages experience mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse … Read more
This article stuck out to me after reading the statists of my last blog post I wanted to know why the sexual assault of males isn’t talked about like sexual assault of women is. This article states that a lot of what causes men to not come forward is the way it happened, there’s so … Read more
Today, there is a lot of talk about sexual harassment but on a college campus, but surprisingly there is more of a risk for college aged students that don’t attend college. This article goes into the statistics-based parts explaining that “female college-aged students (18-24) are 20% less likely than non-students of the same age to … Read more
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/liberty-university-fired-sexual-assault-517105 This article details former Liberty U official Scott Lamb’s claims that he was fired after reporting the mishandling of cases under Title IX. If these claims are true, which they likely are, it is highly disappointing and a slap in the face to sexual assault survivors. Often people who are sexually assaulted on campus feel … Read more
Human trafficking “is closer to home than you think.” There is a misconception that human trafficking is a third-world problem and that it is not an issue plaguing the United States when in reality 400,000 people are estimated to be trafficked at any time. This is an important myth to deconstruct because a lot of … Read more