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Great piece from Zerlina Maxwell (also of Feministing!) at The Grio on Trayvon Martin, victim blaming, and the “strategic manipulation of public perception” by the media.

By Jessica | Published: March 28, 2012 at 10:56 am

The thug-ification of Trayvon Martin: smear campaign distracts from the case

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Dear media, please call it rape

By Jessica | Published: January 26, 2012 at 9:44 am

Greg Kelly, son of NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly and co-host of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a woman. Yet the headline that just came up in my news feed was this: The media needs to call sexual assault what it is. When headlines continually conflate rape [...]

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Watch me on Anderson today!

By Jessica | Published: January 20, 2012 at 9:09 am

Hey y’all, I’m going to be on Anderson Cooper’s daytime show today talking about purity balls and abstinence. (The founder of purity balls, Randy Wilson, is also on.) You can check your local listings for when the show will be on.  In the meantime, here are a couple of clips from the show.   video [...]

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