Report: Almost Half of Female Transport Workers Suffer Sexual Assault at Work
Polly Smythe
A new survey reveals the shocking extent of sexual violence experienced by bus and taxi drivers. Polly Smythe reports.
Tag: sexual violence
Report: UK Charity Honours IDF Soldier Who Rummaged Through Gazan Women’s Underwear
Rivkah Brown
Levi Simon, a dual UK-Israeli national who’s just returned from three months in Gaza, is being hosted by The Boy’s Clubhouse.
Opinion: Self-Help Culture Is a Lie – But Its Opposite Is Just As Bogus
Daisy Schofield
Kim Kardashian says get off your ass and work. Fail, says Elizabeth Day – but only if failure fuels further success. Daisy Schofield looks at our maddening inability to think beyond self-improvement.
Opinion: The Police Are the Domestic Abusers of the Nation
Shanice McBean
When the Met are searching a quarter of Black boys, it’s time to admit that they are abusing us en masse, writes Shanice McBean.
Ash Wednesday: Do I Think About Rape Too Much?
Why are women more afraid of violence from strangers on the street when - statistically speaking - home is the place where they're most unsafe? Ash Sarkar takes a look at how rational fears are used to justify irrational policy decisions, and what we miss when we talk about 'rape culture'.
Opinion: Carceral Feminism Isn’t the Answer to Sexual Violence
Caren Holmes
We can't call ourselves abolitionists if we make an exception for rapists, argues Caren Holmes.
Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”?
In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called ‘gender critical’ thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.
Downstream: How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives
Is ‘consent’ the only dividing line between good sex and bad sex? Ash Sarkar is joined by Rachel Thompson to discuss her new book Rough, and the politics of pornography, kink, and sex ambivalent feminism.
Opinion: Scrapping Britain’s First Red Light District Will Be a Disaster for Sex Workers
Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy
Leeds city council plans to close the ‘managed zone’ in Holbeck, where sex work has been permitted since 2014. It’s a decision that puts the pearl-clutching of gentrifiers before the safety of workers, write Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy.
The Far Right Don’t Care About Sexual Violence – They’re Just Trying to Gain Political Power
Dalia Gebrial
Tommy Robinson’s appointment as Ukip’s ‘grooming gangs advisor’ is just the latest in the far right’s attempts to use our outrage at sexual violence in order to gain credibility and power. We mustn't let them get away with it, argues Dalia Gebrial.
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.
How Anti-Sex Work Legislation Bolsters the Racist State
Ava Caradonna
Sexual violence is not just a 'foreign' problem of traffickers and grooming gangs - and cracking down on sex worker rights doesn't protect anyone from exploitation.
Long Read: What Does Justice Look Like Without Prisons?
Oonagh Ryder
Justice can't be delivered by mass prison systems trading in human suffering and exploitation.
Long Read: Who Gets Sick From Yellow Fever? What Carceral Feminism Does Not See
Kate Sim
Who absorbs the invisible, material costs of the so-called 'Asian fetish?' What does this tell us about borders, globalization and the limitations of carceral approaches to sexual violence?
Ched Evans, State Violence and the Politics of Rape
On this week's Killjoy FM Ray Filar is joined by Zoe Stavri and Andie Macario as they discuss state violence against women and non-binary people.
Long Read: The media’s selective response to sexual violence shows the racism of society’s misogyny
Katie Arthur
Sunday Long Read: From the ubiquitous condemnation of the Cologne attacks to the more reserved response to Roosh V's planned UK tour, the media's handling of sexual violence demonstrates the racist and proprietary form of social attitudes to misogyny.
4 Reasons to Stand Up to Fascism in Dover
George West
On 30 January fascists will once again head to Dover to call for the UK's borders to be closed to refugees. A counter-demonstration is being organised and people are encouraged to come from across the country to show their opposition.
‘Monsters and white knights’: Ukip’s crusade against sexual violence is white supremacy by another name
Eleanor Penny
Rotherham is still reeling from the council's exposed abuse cover-ups. Ukip continue to capitalise on the situation by tying sexual abuse to 'failed multiculturalism' - reiterating racist tropes and bolstering white supremacist leanings along the way.