Rape
What We Need to Talk About When Discussing the Bill Cosby Allegations
To be frank, it’s hard for me to follow the Cosby allegations. Despite all that we’ve learned from the latest court decisions and depositions, Bill Cosby […]
Bill Cosby Scandal Suggests We Still Don’t Take Sexual Assault Seriously Enough
Folks: If Bill Cosby, as has been alleged, sexually assaulted dozens of women, it would be wrong because sexually assaulting women is wrong. It wouldn’t be wrong […]
Male Penn Grad Says He Was Sexually Assaulted After 2013 Phi Kappa Psi Party
Recent University of Pennsylvania graduate Reginald Stewart has sued Penn’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity as well as fraternity brother Charles Gibson over a January 2013 […]
Here Is the New Jersey Bill That Would Criminalize Lying to Get Sex
Last December, New Jersey Assemblyman Troy Singleton introduced a bill that raised eyebrows: It would create the crime of sexual assault by fraud. Lying for […]
Will Philly End Its Rape Kit Backlog?
Natasha Alexenko was a sophomore in college, majoring in film, living in New York City. She’d grown up in a small town in Ontario, raised […]
Is It Time for a “Yes Means Yes” Standard at Philly Colleges?
A City Council committee will hear testimony this afternoon about how Philadelphia colleges and universities handle and investigate sexual assault complaints — and contemplate whether […]
Penn State Students to Tom Wolf: Help End “Epidemic” of Campus Sex Assault
They’ve called out the mighty Penn State administration. They’ve organized rallies in support of women who were allegedly pictured nude and unconscious on websites run by the school’s Kappa Delta Rho chapter. And now, […]
Columbia Journalism School’s Damning Report on That UVA Rape Story
Last night, the report by the team assigned by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to dissect what went wrong in Rolling Stone‘s story […]
Campus Rape Doc The Hunting Ground Screens Tonight
Tonight a new widely acclaimed documentary about sexual assault on campus, The Hunting Ground, will screen at the Ritz Five at Second and Walnut in […]
Center City Lawyers Getting $550-$660 Per Hour for UVA Rape Claims Work
The University of Virginia has hired Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP to consult with the school over its response to rape and sexual assault […]
Judy Huth Lawsuit: Cosby Sexually Assaulted Me at Playboy Mansion
As of Tuesday night, the number of women publicly accusing Bill Cosby of rape, sexual assault or molestation officially topped 20, with Judy Huth of […]
Swarthmore’s “John Doe” Settles Assault Case With College
As the epidemic of campus rape continues to flare up — see fraternity, University of Virginia — so do lawsuits from male college students expelled for sexual assault. One […]
Now CNN’s Don Lemon Is the Laughingstock of Twitter
It was one of the most bizarre interviews ever on TV news. CNN’s Don Lemon, who used to work in Philadelphia at NBC10, asked one […]
Oh, Won’t Somebody Think of the Rapists?
Last week I wrote about street harassment and why women worry, with particular attention to the threat of the unknown and unfamiliar: the strange men […]
Hate Speech Messages On Swarthmore Campus Target LGBT and Asexual Communities
This Monday night, in honor of LGBT History Month, some students at Swarthmore College got together to write some pro-gay messages on sidewalks around campus. […]