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Rape

February 27, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

SVYALit Project: Discussing THE S WORD by Chelsea Pitcher, a guest post by Lourdes Keochgerien

“Maybe the first step to stomping out the world’s ugliness is dragging it into the light.” ~ Angie The S Word I can’t pinpoint exactly when I started thinking about sexual violence/abuse. It was a topic that always remained in my peripheral vision – I don’t recall us discussing it in my sexual education class. […]

May 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Because No Always Means No: a list of titles dealing with rape and sexual harassment

April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And we had a lot to say about it.  The bottom line, no means no (and silence doesn’t mean yes).  That should be the message – always.  It’s what we need to be teaching all people, both boys and girls, at all ages.  Respecting others is at the heart […]

May 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Canary by Rachele Alpine

Staying quiet will destroy her, but speaking up will destroy everyone.  Earlier this year, the world was rocked by the Stuebenville case and it is like, somehow, Alpine knew it was happening and in her premonition wrote about it all, just changing the sport from football to basketball in her teen novel, Canary.  At the […]

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I really don’t know what to think this week.  I don’t know where we’re going as a society when we can’t hold people accountable for their actions because “they don’t know what they’re doing” or victims are “enticing them with what they’re wearing.” I know that we as a culture are growing less empathetic due […]

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Please note: this post is on a sensitive subject and can have triggering discussions for some.   “What have we here?” a cocky teenage voice said. A group of boys ducked under the short doorframe into the room.  A particularly tall one stared through the open window with his mouth gaping, as if she were […]

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