⚠Content Warning: Discussion of Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) Introduction This will not be a very well-organized essay, since it amounts to more or less collating and editing a few related conversations and arguments I had several years ago concerning the matter of body autonomy and youth liberation. At […]
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Book Review: “Harmful to Minors,” by Judith Levine
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia Table of Contents: The Short Version and the Long Version This was supposed to be a one-paragraph blurb. Numerous times since I began talking about youth liberation, consent, and rape culture, friends and radicals have asked what I think of Judith Levine’s highly […]
Every Rapist is a Cop Without a Badge
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This is a follow-up to a previous article. To read Part I, please click here. A feature of the rape apologist ideology to which feminist analysis of rape-as-power responds is the reversal of the power relations between the victim and the rapist. […]
Sex, Desire, and Violence
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This essay is one of a two-part series. Read Part II here. Table of Contents: On Strange Bedfellows You have most likely heard someone assert that, “rape is not sex, rape is power.” Or the somewhat less reductive: “rape is not about […]
The Elephant in the Room
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia
Saying the Hard Parts
⚠Content Warning: Discussion of Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming, Transphobia
As a child I didn’t have many friends. I was trans and didn’t know it, and didn’t perform gender in the way I was expected to. I was autistic and didn’t know it, and didn’t engage socially in the way I was expected to. I was plural and didn’t know it…
‘anna’: how a kid (me) was raped online
Content Notice: Descriptions of child sexual abuse, grooming, suicide mention.