Friday Links

Here are a few things from around the web that may interest you:

When Feminists Take On Judges Over Rape

Rape survivor opens the UK’s first maternity clinic for sexual assault victims

In case you missed it: Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker

I do not know your name — but I see your unconquerable spirit.
I see the limitless potential of an incredibly talented young woman — full of possibility. I see the shoulders on which our dreams for the future rest.
I see you.
You will never be defined by what the defendant’s father callously termed “20 minutes of action.”
His son will be.
I join your global chorus of supporters, because we can never say enough to survivors: I believe you. It is not your fault.
What you endured is never, never, never, NEVER a woman’s fault.

— Joe Biden Writes An Open Letter To Stanford Survivor

To Brock Turner’s Father, From Another Father

Who is the judge who gave Brock Turner 6 months?

Prospective Jurors Refuse to Serve Under Aaron Persky, the Judge in Brock Turner Case

Sign the Petition to Remove Judge Aaron Persky from the Bench For Decision in Brock Turner rape case

“I recently got into an argument with a professor friend about the plausibility of restructuring higher education and the professions so that women — and men — wouldn’t have to hustle for positions like partner or associate professor just as they reach peak fertility. Many universities, I said, now stop the tenure clock for a year when assistant professors have children. My friend laughed. A year is nothing when it comes to a baby, she said. She’d never have won tenure if she’d had her son first.”

— How to Fix Feminism: Hillary Clinton’s generation aimed to free women from domestic prisons. But work is a prison, too.

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