In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture
Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour
After news that house songstress Lady Zamar opened a rape case against hip-hop crooner Sjava, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has removed him from its 2020 lineup
Gender-based violence is escalating as the social crisis deepens. Some activists want a special council for survivors
Mentally ill men and women are easy targets for rapists, who are often known to them, and they don’t always report such incidents through fear
Many attacks go unpunished, and those that are reported often fail to end in indictments or make it through the judicial system, rights groups say
"Twenty-thousand people were killed in the past year. The majority of killers and victims are men," Ramaphosa says at summit.
Life Orientation 2.0? Why it may be time for a new take on an old subject.
When people can’t get to healthcare, healthcare needs get to them.
We must teach our sons to respect women, call out buddies and check our own attitude
Sexual assault survivors are silenced by societal prejudice, lack of support from their community or family, secondary trauma and rape myths.
Breaking the silence on sexual violation is powerful but how we do it is another question
We need to air our own complicity in muting the voices of sexual assault victims
Victims will suffer while laws criminalising image-based sexual abuse are being developed
"We must ask difficult questions about the underlying drivers of violence if we are to eliminate gratuitous violence in society"
Her death comes barely a week after Karabo Mokoena’s 22-year-old burnt body was discovered in a shallow grave in Johannesburg, last week.
It’s a pity that the cartoonist’s work is still able to hurt so many who encounter it even casually, writes the Daily Vox team.
The comments were met with a public outcry and a gross misconduct complaint was laid against her
A film about the sexual abuse of one woman should be the start of a movement to say: ‘No!’
Artists will hang 3 600 used panties on a washing line, the estimated number of women raped daily.
