Archive for February, 2012

Image by Garry Knight, taken at the Slutwalk meeting at Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 11 June 2011. CC license.

On Hugo Schwyzer: Accountability, not silencing dissent

Trigger warning: gendered violence/attempted murder, suicide, addiction, abuse culture. A few weeks ago I wrote an article for Global Comment on the ongoing discussion in parts of the feminist blogosphere about Hugo Schwyzer, and more broadly on the place of people with a history of abuse in feminism and other activist [...]

by × February 21, 2012 × 49 comments
Violence Wheel, from domesticviolence.org.

On emotional abuse, abuse culture, and rape culture

There were a number of conversations on Twitter this weekend about rape culture and abuse culture; I’ve put together some of them in the Storify story embedded below. Just FYI, it’s rather long, and not all of it loads at once (it updates as you scroll down). Thanks to everyone who [...]

by × February 14, 2012 × 5 comments