Sexual Harassment

women. These women and femmes are often less likely to gain access to safe indoor working conditions, leading to an unfavoured final resort, increasing their visibility on the street. This manifests into the authorities targeting these women through harassment and harsh treatment due to their racial and class…

slurs, “Faggots! Wearing your speedos!, “Look at those faggots, have fun touching each other.” I can still hear those words, echoing through the halls of lockers, which at that point seemed endless. The seniors on the team reassured us that the harassment would stop throughout my years at Monta Vista High, they were wrong. The football players, the runners, even the tennis players called me a faggot for the sport I loved. My junior year I also joined the Gay Straight Alliance, and through that…

must learn to successfully navigate the line between appropriate and inappropriate when discussing queer issues or helping queer students with personal problems. Often LGBTQ students are confused about their sexuality and have questions about sex and sexual issues. The teacher, as they would with a straight student asking questions about sex, would need to respect the boundaries of the student/teacher relationship, keeping the discussion professional and appropriate for an adult-student…

Hill vs. Clarence Thomas case has been labeled as one of the most controversial cases in history. Clarence Thomas was a 43 year old judge who had just been nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991. Soon after he was nominated, Anita Hill accused him of sexual assault in the workplace during the time that they worked together at the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. As controversial as this case may have been it only hindered Clarence Thomas’ way up to the Supreme Court. The case should…

stop ‘harmless banter’ becoming hurtful misogyny, the issues surrounding consent and instances of sexual harassment are still huge at unis everywhere. With term fast approaching, The Tab looks…

We find the defendant guilty of sexual abuse. A phrase I could never have fathomed would be spoken in reference to my name. But November 30, 2012 was the day, I was wrongfully convicted of a crime I did not commit and I ended up spending 950 days (2.5 years) of my life, approximately 70 which were spent in solitary confinement, wrongfully incarcerated as a result of being wrongfully accused by a fellow female student while I was attending the University of Iowa in the fall of 2010 and being to…

rejection, the LGBT community remains steadfast and strong. Historically, members of the LGBT group have similar incidences of bigotry, inequality, and violence (Meyer, 2016). For example, in America, LGBT individuals face lawful bigotry, due to their sexual orientation, in housing, education, and…

Ask an average teenager what they know about sexual assault, and they may refer to “locker room talk” or dramatized rape scenes in movies. It is misconceptions like these that can drive a victim further into seclusion, because their situation is so unknown to the average person, leaving them in solitary. In the United States alone, one in five women and one in seventy-five men will be raped at some point throughout their lifetime, yet only 37% of these incidents are reported to authorities…

protests are against the law. According to a research paper by Human Rights First, over the last decade, the rise of Russian Right Wing activists have led a wave of violent hate crime (Academic Article 1). When people are attacked after revealing their sexual orientation, they are attacked, and some are usually tortured. While Putin has said that attacks on LGBT are not tolerated, Russian police and officials have made no arrests (Academic Article 1). The Russian authorities rarely…

In Judith Ortiz Cofer's personal essay, “The Myth Of The Latin Woman”, the author defines numerous oppressive stereotypes that she single-handedly endured. During these prejudice interactions, Cofer responded with pure modesty and high hopes that her actions would diminish others credence within the myth of the Latin woman Through Cofer’s personal reflection, the author acknowledged instances in which she was subjected to racial stereotyping. Regardless of the author's “travels” or personal…