Posts Tagged ‘rape’
The Dart Center Guide to Reporting on Sexual Violence
Given the recent conversation on this blog and elsewhere, I thought readers might benefit from this guide. Please share it freely with anyone who might find these tips useful. I think they are helpful for reporting on other sensitive topics, as well. You might also be interested in my post on Meaningful Consent in Trauma [...]
Who gets to tell rape stories from Haiti?
There’s a debate raging about Mac McClelland’s reporting for Mother Jones last fall from Haiti. If you haven’t followed it, a personal essay for GOOD magazine about McClelland’s struggle with PTSD after spending time in Haiti ignited strong feelings – about the relationship between journalism and essays, about neo-colonial representations of the developing world, and [...]
Nobel Women’s Initiative takes on sexual violence
The Nobel Women’s Initiative, which is exactly what you think it is, is taking up the cause of ending sexual violence in war. Tall order, I know, but if you want to eavesdrop on them — or better yet, participate in their conversation — you can follow a live blog here (started at 10 am [...]
Rape in the DRC: Now complete with statistics!
A few days ago, I got a press release about Congo, the first line of which is this: “A new study shows that women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been raped at a rate 26 times higher than previously thought. The shockingly high number is equivalent to 1,152 women raped every day, 48 [...]
Events that are worth a New York minute — and more
Here are two upcoming events that promise to be interesting and inspiring. If you’re in the City, come on by. If you’re not, tell your metro-friends. (And come say hi to me at the Dart celebration!) A Celebration of the Dart Society, an collective of journalists whose work focuses on trauma, broadly defined. Gloria Steinem [...]
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