Dear media, please call it rape
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 and sexual assault with ‘sex’, they contribute to a culture that ignores, and even condones, sexual violence.
UPDATE: Look at this! Good on them.
THE AMERICAN DREAM ..RIGHT??!!
If you live in GA or know one of your followers does please re-blog this. Ill be posting more information from SPARK (events, updates) as we get them concerning HB 653 and our efforts to stop shackling. Please visit the links below and pass them along.
“On April 14, 2011, our anti-shackling bill, HB 653, was introduced and will be reviewed during the 2012 legislative session. This is the first pro reproductive justice bill introduced in Georgia in 4 years”
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9041527/SJTA/Legislate%20THIS/SPARK_RESOURCE_INTERACTIVE_rev_02182011.pdf
Love SPARK! Have gotten to meet some of the people behind the organization. An amazing group of people doing amazing, necessary work.
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Historic Engagement of the Day: Rep. Barney Frank, who in 1987 became the first openly gay member of Congress, is set to become the first openly gay member of Congress to be legally married while still in office.
According to Frank’s spokesman Harry Gural, the Massachusetts rep. and longtime partner Jim Ready are preparing to tie the knot in their home state. A wedding date has not yet been set.
Frank and Ready first met at a fundraiser in 2005. They entered into a relationship in 2007, following the death of Ready’s partner.
Ready has been a source of some controversy for the Congressmen. He was arrested in 2007 for growing marijuana near his home in Maine. He pled guilty and was fined. Frank, who was in the house at the time, later released a statement saying Ready apologized and promised not to do it again.
71-year-old Frank announced late last year that he would be retiring at the end of his current term.
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Historic Engagement of the Day: Rep. Barney Frank, who in 1987 became the first openly gay member of Congress, is set to become the first openly gay member of Congress to be legally married while still in office.
According to Frank’s spokesman Harry Gural, the Massachusetts rep. and longtime partner Jim Ready are preparing to tie the knot in their home state. A wedding date has not yet been set.
Frank and Ready first met at a fundraiser in 2005. They entered into a relationship in 2007, following the death of Ready’s partner.
Ready has been a source of some controversy for the Congressmen. He was arrested in 2007 for growing marijuana near his home in Maine. He pled guilty and was fined. Frank, who was in the house at the time, later released a statement saying Ready apologized and promised not to do it again.
71-year-old Frank announced late last year that he would be retiring at the end of his current term.
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