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Qs to Help You Unpack Your Assumptions About Rape and Abuse

September 19, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

What unconscious beliefs do you hold about domestic abuse and sexual violence?

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“Bad Sex,” Or The Sex We Don’t Want But Have Anyway

December 9, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

Let me be clear: “bad sex” isn’t rape. By “bad sex,” I mean the sex we have that we don’t want to have but consent to anyway.

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Book Review: Wrapped Around Your Finger

September 5, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

Without fail, Alison Tyler’s prose picks up my brain and rattles it around.

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Consent, Children’s Lit, and Ella Enchanted

July 22, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

Ella Enchanted makes it clear that obedience is not a virtue, and that never having the option to refuse is a miserable, unlivable existence.

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