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Jerry Heldman: Good Samaritan, “Jazz Wizard,” My Dad
Dad My father died last Friday. Pneumonia finally took him, and despite two years to intellectually prepare for his death, it hits in emotional ways that are simply not possible to prepare for. Jerome...
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Emily Yoffe is Helping Campus Rapists Hide in Plain Sight
By Caroline Heldman & Danielle Dirks On October 15, Slate Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe wrote a piece titled, “The Best Rape Prevention: Tell College Women to Stop Getting Drunk.” A...
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Patricia Esparza: Victim on Trial
*** Trigger Warning for Violence, Including Sexual Violence*** Dr. Patricia Esparza 39-year-old Patricia Esparza embodies the fabled American Dream. She spent the first five years of her life in El...
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Retracting the Retraction: Occidental College, The Los Angeles Times, and the...
Caroline Heldman is the Chair of the Politics Department at Occidental College and a co-founder of the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition (OSAC). She is also the lead complainant on the Clery and Title IX...
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How the Nuva Ring Nearly Killed Me
This post was written by my dear friend and sister, Kathleen Heldman. I am a runner and an avid rock climber. I practice yoga every day and surf when I can. I live to be moving, working, organizing,...
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Campus Rape: Why Parents Should Send their College-Bound Daughters and Sons...
The Department of Education (ED) made headlines on May 1 when they published a list of 55 colleges and universities under investigation for their handling of sexual violence on campus, a number that...
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Campus Rape: A Brief History of Sexual Violence Activism in the U.S.
By Caroline Heldman & Baillee Brown In the past year, survivor activists and allies have effectively put sexual violence on the national agenda, spurring White House, congressional, and state-level...
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Campus Rape: The Second Wave of the Backlash Against Anti-Rape Activism
By Caroline Heldman and Baillee Brown. Crossposted at Ms. Blog . In the past two years, anti-rape activists have put campus sexual assault on the national policy agenda—but in recent months, the...
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Campus Rape: Reporters and Rape Myths
Crossposted at Ms. Blog. Bloomberg News took the campus sexual assault backlash to a new low last week with a piece describing how “hook-up culture” is on the decline at elite colleges now that there’s...
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Campus Rape: Why Colleges Won’t (Really) Address Rape Culture
By Caroline Heldman and Baillee Brown, crossposted at Ms. Blog. One in five women and 6 percent of men will face sexual assault/rape during their time in college. But no college in the U.S. has come up...
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Harvard Law Professors Join the Anti-Rape Movement Backlash
On October 15th, 28 current and retired Harvard Law professors penned an op-ed calling upon the university to abandon its new sexual harassment policy on the grounds that it violates the due process...
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Campus Rape: Why Not Law Enforcement?
Co-authored with Baillee Brown. Cross-posted at Ms. Blog. There’s one question about campus rape that comes up again and again: Why isn’t the crime handled exclusively by law enforcement? In a perfect...
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How to Spot Sexual Objectification: The CHIPS Test
The CHIPS Test is an easy way to identify sexual objectification. If the answer is “yes” to any of the following questions, the image you are looking at is sexually objectifying. 1) Commodity: Does the...
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Thirty Years of Failed Presidential Leadership on Campus Rape
College administrators have known about the campus rape problem for three decades, and they have been mandated to address it for two decades, why has so little been done? The answer is failed...
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A Powerful Veep Audition for GOP Governor Nikki Haley
With former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarded as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, 2016 is an election year where gender matters. Haley’s rebuttal looks like a test for the GOP...
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#sexismdoesntsell
I have a distinct memory of being a kid and witnessing my mother face sexism at a car dealership in the mid-1980s. She had recently learned to drive and gotten her license at the age of 41. On our way...
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Democracy in Action at the 2016 RNC
Becca Cooper (a.k.a. Wreck-It-Beck) and I travelled to Cleveland last week to interview everyday Americans who had gathered outside the Republican National Convention to express their political...
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2 Conventions, 1 Cup
The party conventions are behind us, and we have 99 days of one of the ugliest presidential election in history to go. This post is a recap of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland and...
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Panicked About a Trump Win? Relax, and vote.
Many of my progressive friends are panicking about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House. This post lays out why Hillary Clinton is heavily favored to win in November. I begin with an...
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