The Truth About Alice

May 8, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Slut Shaming Hurts Guys, Too – a guest post by author Jennifer Mathieu (A Part of the #SVYALit Project)

As part of the #SVYALit Project we’ve talked a lot about slut-shaming and how it hurts girls. And it does. But the truth is, it hurts boys, too. When I met up recently with the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE Jennifer Mathieu, she started talking to me about it and what she had to […]

March 12, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

It starts with a text: “Alice slept with two guys in one night”. It doesn’t matter if it is true or not, it is too late. The damage is done. Then one of the boys, a star football player named Brandon, dies in a car accident. Alice must somehow be to blame. No one cares […]

February 20, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Slut Shaming, part 1 – a discussion by author Christa Desir (Part of the SVYALit Project)

Slut-shaming is defined as: the process in which women are attacked for their transgression of accepted codes of sexual conduct making any person feel guilty or inferior for certain sexual behaviors or desires that deviate from the traditional or orthodox gender expectations Picture from the movie The Breakfast Club So a few weeks ago, a […]