The Walkhome Walkout
You’re walking home from one of your evening classes. It’s the fall, and the evenings grow shorter. It’s getting dark quickly and you start to feel uncomfortable walking alone. Who …
Sexual Violence
Introducing Arthur Newspaper × Trent Community Research Centre: Forensic Science, Sexual Assault, and the LGBTQIA2S+ Community
Trent’s Community-based Research Centre (TCRC) connects students with Peterborough-Nogowinanong community organizations to collaborate on research projects. This year, Arthur Newspaper teamed up with the TCRC to find an answer to …
Is #MeToo Hitting a Sophomore Slump?
For the October 11 issue of The New York Review of Books, Jian Ghomeshi was invited to pen a long essay about his life after sexual and domestic abuse allegations …
Leave Teenage Girls Alone
When I talk to women my age about their high school dating experiences, almost all of us can recall a time where an older man made us uncomfortable. It could …
No More. Step Up. Speak Out. Take Back the Night.
Take Back The Night. It is a movement that began in the early 1960s with protests in Belgium and England, led by women that felt unsafe walking alone at night …
Drawing the Line on Sexual Violence on Campus
[content warning: Although it contains no overt or graphic details, this piece discusses sexual violence on and off campus.] It’s not a stretch to say that the developed world is …
The representation of sexual violence in two new films
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang (France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015) and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room (Ireland/Canada, 2015) have had great success on the festival circuit and in popular consciousness. The fictional films have led me …
How not to be “that guy”: consent and dialogue
By now, you’ve probably had some pretty serious blinders on to be unaware of the issue of sexual violence on campus. Talk of “rape culture” and other buzzwords saturate the …
Gender-based violence in our community
What message is the story sending the victims? The perpetrators? And the bystanders? are the three most important questions to consider when telling the stories of gender-based violence. “WORDS MATTER: …
Guest Editorial: Sexual assault – It’s never okay
As the TCSA Women’s Commissioner and CFS delegate on March 6, 2015, I was invited to the launch of Ontario Premier Wynne’s $41 million three-year action plan to combat sexual …