For a while now I have absorbed the outrage expressed on social media as people have lashed out in response to the sentencing and then reduced sentence of Brock Turner, rapist, ex-Stanford University swimmer, by Judge Aaron Persky. Unable to identify my own feelings on the matter, or maybe just wanting to avoid them, I tacitly…
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What would happen if we were teaching HOW TO NOT RAPE?
by Jessica Martin-Weber “WHY are there workshops on how to avoid being a victim but there aren’t workshops on how to avoid being an attacker?” She had a point. I encouraged her to lower her voice and be mindful of how others were processing in the moment but I couldn’t deny that she was right….