Sexual Assault Awareness Month: A Wear Your Voice Reading List
Wear Your Voice curated a list of the many pieces we published over the past few years which are fitting reads for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Content Note: discussions of sexual violence, including r/pe, abuse of minors, coercion, and stealthing Survivors
Committing Harm Is Not The Same As Being Abusive
In conflating harm with abuse, we contribute to disposability politics and stray further away from a more just future of accountability and healing. This essay discusses sexual violence and mentions r/pe My queer parent, Hunter Shackelford, and I sit around and talk
‘Bombshell’ Fails to Paint White Women As Leaders of the Resistance
t’s ludicrous for Bombshell to position any of these women as champions against workplace sexual harassment when their racism simply shifts that violence against Black and brown women. CW: Discussions of workplace sexual violence I knew exactly what I was in
Abusers Like Harvey Weinstein Don’t Get To Decide How We Remember Them
The women harmed by Weinstein had no choice but to live in world shaped by his terror. He too doesn't get a choice in how society remembers him. Content note: This story discusses sexual harassment, r/pe, and sexual assault. The news broke
Tamar Braxton and Cishet Black Women’s Complicated Relationships to Queer Black People
Tamar's statement goes beyond harming cishet men, it opens up a particular kind of violence against Queer Black people. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence and r/pe culture Recently, recording artist and television personality, Tamar Braxton, made a post on