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Despite the widespread problem of sexual and physical violence (studies have shown that approximately one-fourth of college women will be the survivors of rape or attempted rape by the time that they graduate), it is very difficult for survivors to find one another. There are many reasons for this difficulty. For one, it is impossible to see who a survivor is; there is no visible marker of membership for a group of survivors. Also, issues of confidentiality preclude mental health professionals from disclosing survivors' identities and friends of survivors rightly do not want to betray their friends' confidence. Moreover...
Unfortunately, too often survivors go it alone in their struggle to define and live with their experiences. As Susan Estrich, a rape survivor and a graduate of our law school, wrote in her book, Real Rape, "At first, being raped is something you simply don't talk about. Then it occurs to you that people whose houses are broken into or who are mugged in Central Park talk about it all the time…And so I mention it. I mention it in my classes. I describe it here…In writing about rape, I am writing about...
When we first heard about Take Back the Night (TBTN), we were genuinely interested. We felt that a week devoted to protesting such universal women's issues such as rape, domestic violence and eating disorders would be informative and helpful for young women across campus. However, once we examined the schedule for the week, we were incredibly disturbed by one event. On Tuesday night, the Radcliffe Union of Students, along with Students for Choice, presented a "pro-choice dinner and activism workshop" as a part of TBTN...
...didn't want to come in at first, because he was uncomfortable...And then he wouldn't sit anywhere but the floor." Sterling adds that he then asked if they should keep the door open. Was he afraid that his six female co-officers would fall on him and rape him? "I don't know," he replies. "I was nervous that there weren't any advisors around...
Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from West Africa, was shot and killed by four New York City police officers in February 1999. The police officers said they mistook him for a rape suspect and mistook a wallet in his hand...