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Sunday Reflections: When the Discussion of College Rape is More Reality Than Statistics
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST DISCUSSES SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE When I sent my daughter off to college this fall as a freshman, I was very well aware of the statistical truth of college rape in the abstract. I sent her with a black belt in self defense, pepper spray, Plan B, and more prayers than […]
Sunday Reflections: On Watching TV as a Woman
Karen Jensen discusses what it's like as a survivor of sexual violence to watch some forms of entertainment
Shout! Laurie Halse Anderson Continues to be the Voice We Need Shouting in the World About Sexual Violence in the Life of Teens
On March 12 of 2019, Laurie Halse Anderson will release her newest book Shout, a moving biography that seeks once again to highlight the very real truths of sexual violence in the life of teens - and in her own life.
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#SVYALit: Laurie Halse Anderson and Eric Devine talk about teaching Speak on NPR
Way back in 2014, which right now seems like a lifetime ago and in a different world, TLT hosted the Sexual Violence in YA Lit Project. As part of this project, author and teacher Eric Devine wrote a post about teaching the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson to his high school students. In the […]
Sunday Reflections: It Was a Rough Week to be a Teenage Girl
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault and Violence This past week, John Kerry said that Trump had the “insecurity of a teenage girl.” Are teenage girls insecure? Some of them are, perhaps in part because we continue to use being a girl and femininity as an insult. Or perhaps it’s because teenage girls are told that they […]
Sunday Reflections: In Which The Teen Writes a Poem About Sexual Harassment
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST TALKS ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT I know it’s been a rough week in a lot of ways for us all between the mix of politics and loss, but it was also a really rough week at the Jensen household because of everyone’s arch nemesis: sexual harassment. On Friday, I received a text […]
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Sunday Reflections: Dear Writers, Women’s Stories Don’t Always Have to Involve Sexual Violence
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST INVOLVES A FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN OUR MEDIA CONSUMPTION The last day of school is a half day. The Teen comes home at Noon. It’s already almost 100 degrees outside and she had two finals on this last day. So she asks me if I want to […]
Sunday Reflections: If We Want to End Sexual Violence, We Have to Change the Way Adults Talk About It
Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence, Rape Some weeks (months?) ago, the news broke out that a high school near me was embroiled in a horrific sexual violence case. At first, the media kept referring to it as “hazing”. After a lot of push back, the media and community have started to use the terms sexual assault. […]
Sexual Harassment in KidLit
As a librarian, I don’t often feel genuinely a part of kid or yalit. I’m not an author. I’m not a publisher. I’m not an agent or an editor. But I am someone who regularly talks about books and puts them into the hands of kids and teens. So these last few days, I have […]
#YAAtoZ: Consent in YA, a guest post by author Sara Baysinger
Welcome to February, where we are discussing the letters C and D as part of the #YAAtoZ Project. Today we’re talking consent with author Sara Baysinger. For a complete look at the #YAAtoZ posts, go here. Consent. It’s a loaded word with crystal clear meaning, yet somehow the lines still get blurred for *certain* people […]
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