Consent lessons: not as hurtful as rape
(10/23/15 1:37am)
Last week, a pretentious dude refused to learn about consent, thus teaching us all why consent is important.
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Tie Dye
(10/23/15 12:41am)
Ruben Molina, a 19-year-old biology sophomore, dips a STRIVE T-shirt into purple dye for theSexual Trauma/Interpersonal Violence Education organization’s tie-dye event at the Plaza of the Americas Oct. 22, 2015. “For rape culture to end, it needs to be seen,” Molina said. “It exists and it’s something we should stop.”
Quilt
(10/19/15 11:54pm)
Merrell chooses fabric to use on a square for The Monument Quilt. She said the workshop was held to help survivors heal and combat rape culture.
Quilt
(10/19/15 11:53pm)
Sexual assault survivors came together to quilt their stories Oct. 19, 2015, at Wild Iris Books, a feminist bookstore at 22 SE 5th Ave. The evening was the last of three monthly workshops at Wild Iris where participants created squares for the Monument Quilt, a project that collects stories from rape and abuse survivors on red fabric squares and displays them in public spaces around the U.S.
Let's redefine consent to combat rape culture
(10/15/15 12:09am)
Last week, UF Student Government coordinated a series of events in accordance with Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Events held during the week included a panel in which survivors of sexual assault spoke of their experiences and the prevalence of the trend.
Planned Protest
(10/12/15 12:12am)
Santiago Benjumea (left), a 23-year-old IGNITE school of ministry sophomore, and Karen Paige, a 49-year-old administration assistant, stand among about 25 protestors picketing Planned Parenthood on Oct. 10, 2015. Paige said her son was conceived when she was raped at 15 and the world would have lost out on his contributions if she had killed her baby. “This is war,” Benjumea said. “We are out here in combat.”
UF student fights for justice for accused rapists
(10/09/15 1:01am)
Carol Greenlee’s father wasn’t there when she was born.
Sexual assault survivors speak up at SG-hosted event
(10/09/15 12:58am)
"We had a date — or what I thought was a date," Diamond Delancy said.
Students march in “Dress Does Not Mean Yes” movement
(10/09/15 12:31am)
UF industrial and systems engineering sophomore Andres Esteller chanted: "Consent is hot. Assault is not."
It’s on us: Stop shaming survivors
(10/09/15 12:24am)
Last Saturday, I was called a "cunt."
Dress
(10/09/15 12:14am)
Andres Estellar (center), a 20-year-old UF industrial systems engineering sophomore, protests with his sign reading "consent is hot assault is not" sign during the Dress Does Not Mean Yes March on the Plaza of the Americas on Oct. 8, 2015. "As a community, we should all respect each other's views and bodies instead of violating a person's sense of dignity," he said. "It's time to raise awareness - rape is never okay."
Dress
(10/09/15 12:14am)
HeFor She President Lillian Rozsa (left), a 19-year-old UF political science and women's studies sophomore, and secretary Whitney Hall, a 19-year-old UF biology sophomore, lead the “Dress Does Not Mean Yes” walk from the Plaza of the Americas to Turlington Plaza on Oct. 8, 2015. Hall said the march was to express solidarity with sexual assault victims and determination to end rape culture.
Groveland
(10/09/15 12:14am)
Walter Irvin (third from left), Charles Greenlee, and Samuel Shepherd, stand in a jail after being accused of raping a 17-year-old white girl in Lake County, Florida, in 1949. Since then, Greenlee’s daughter, Carol Greenlee, has petitioned to exonerate her father and the other African American men who were charged alongside him, known as the Groveland Four.
UF students to march for gender equality, HeForShe campaign
(10/07/15 1:06am)
UF biology freshman Kendall Cantrell won’t go back to Midtown. The last time she was there, the 18-year-old was groped by multiple men at Grog House Bar and Grill.
A gentle giant visits St. Francis House
(10/05/15 12:44am)
Over lunch, they wrestled.
On a scale from one to frat …
(09/29/15 11:41pm)
Last Friday, I observed a sign on the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house that read "ATΩ + ∆∆∆ YOU’RE THE TEN-I-SEE." My first reaction was to scoff and write off the sign as a misplaced joke. But it merits consideration so that we might better understand how Greek life prescribes the interaction between men and women and how our culture inadvertently permits abuse.
‘There’s still hope’: Cold cases resurface in sheriff’s office
(09/25/15 12:19am)
In 1968, Hilary Sessions had a baby.
ColdCase
(09/24/15 11:50pm)
Art Forgey, the spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, goes through a sample sexual assault evidence kit in his office Sept. 16, 2015. ACSO is looking to use DNA from rape kits and other cases to solve cold cases. “Twenty years from now, who knows what we’ll be able to do,” he said.
Safety programs see an increase during Fall semesters
(09/18/15 12:40am)
Organizations that teach sexual-assault safety have seen an increase in student registration for their programs in the Fall term rather than in Spring.
Column: Where did Walk Safe and other measures go?
(09/16/15 12:24am)
At the beginning of last year’s Fall semester, a series of frightening assaults on young women took place on and off campus. I’m sure everyone who was at UF remembers these assaults; they were all over the news. The university sent out safety notices daily and UPD parked ostensibly empty cars on campus for long periods of time — I’m still not sure how much safety an obviously empty cop car guarantees, but I appreciate the effort.
