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missgingerlee:

Presented without comment.

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projectunbreakable:

The idea that I should be afraid of my abusers (yes, both of them) seems absurd to me now. I live in my own apartment, in a secure neighborhood, with a rifle for home defense. But when you’re five years old, you’ll believe anything an adult tells you. I didn’t tell anyone for fifteen years, and the first time I told anyone, I vomited from panic and nearly passed out. Over these last few years I have slowly chipped away at the amount of fear and control my abusers spent so much time cultivating, each in his own way. My therapist tells me that male victims are generally less likely to come forward, and that is a trend I would very much like to see reversed.

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Thank you to the reader who submitted this. If you have an image you would like to submit, please email me at grace@50extraordinarywomen.com.. And if you’re in NYC, MA, NJ, or Washington DC then I would potentially be able to photograph you in the near future - just send me an email.

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[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our culture [and] are often turned into a ‘bizarre’ fetish object. The result is that fat women are told to be grateful for any sexual attention they receive from anyone, whether they themselves find that person sexually appealing or not. In other words, even more than your average women, fat women are only allowed to be occasional objects of desire and are regularly denied their right to have and pursue sexual desires of their own.

That way of thinking becomes very dangerous when sexual violence is mixed in. When fat women are raped, they’re often told they should be grateful that anyone wanted them, or, alternatively, disbelieved because it doesn’t seem plausible that anyone would want them ‘enough to rape them.’ These arguments not only rely on the dangerous myth that rape is about uncontrollable sexual desire (it’s not), but also propagate the message that fat women’s bodies aren’t valuable enough to the culture for their violation to be taken seriously.

mohandasgandhi:

themishaps:

That’s it. I’m done with the internet for today.

This is why I don’t go on Reddit. Reddit loves rape. You’d be shocked to find out how many people agree with Veeks.

This is something all women genuinely have to worry about and how do you find out about your partner’s views on this stuff? Can you even imagine bringing this stuff up in conversation? “Oh, hey, darling, while married, would you have sex with me while I was asleep?”

Get out.

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projectunbreakable:

Taken today. 

This woman, moments after her rape last year, had to scream and cry on a public street just so the police would actually take her to the precinct - they wouldn’t because they told her what happened wasn’t a crime. 

This is the excerpt from her email she sent me, before we met up:

There was one female officer, a sergeant, who responded to my 911 call that night. I truly thought, She’s a woman, maybe I can get through to her, woman-to-woman. As the police tried to escape to their cars and leave me weeping pantyless on the sidewalk, I followed her, begging with her to listen to me. I said to her something like, “Please, please help me… Imagine as a woman what this must feel like for me…”

The quote on the poster is what the female sergeant replied.

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On a different note, this is going to be the last photo until the weekend is over. This project is tough to manage, but it’s probably also tough to read as well. I think it would be good for all of us to take a couple of days to just breathe. Okay? Okay. No clicking onto the site, either. Just take some time for yourself. 

xo

Grace

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mohandasgandhi:

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mohandasgandhi:

No Abortions For Raped Military Women

The Senate recently passed the buck on voting on legislation to amend a current law stating that military women who were raped are not able to receive abortions. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss this terrible story.

Cenk goes a little ballistic in this one but for good reason. Forcing someone to have and care for their rapist’s child should fall under “cruel and unusual punishment.” I can understand why people just completely lose it in these circumstances.

Well its not cruel and unusual punishment because… well there is nothing to punish… they were a victim… sooo… its just… well it is punishing them I guess… but their a victim…. soo…… yeahh. 

As someone who studies law, I absolutely know what the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause is and it wasn’t a mistake that I said that. We’re punishing women for being raped in this country… and for being raped while working for the government by government employees.

metamorphoseandbodhi:

The Rape of the Samburu Women

For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya. During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers. Yet, despite documentation of their claims, a three-year internal investigation by the Royal Military Police (RMP) cleared all soldiers of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, the victims have been shamed and outcast in their communities, many to the point of exile. In the mid-1990s, Beatrice Chili responded to this situation by establishing the village of Senchen, a self-sufficient community run entirely by women. There, women build homes, weave textiles, gather and grow food, and raise children. This short film visits the brave women of Senchen, who speak candidly about their suffering and talk passionately about their demands for justice.

Watch the film to hear their stories and to find out how you can offer your support.

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lrenkl:

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ramirezdahmerbundy:

On November the 5th, 2006 in Cherokee county, Georgia a horrific crime occurred. A single mom of 3 was in her kitchen cleaning up dishes and her youngest daughter was on the computer in the next room. Her daughter was building a Build A Bear she wanted online. She asked her mom to come and see. Her mother, named Sue White went to go and see her daughters creation. As she entered the room to see she heard glass shatter in the kitchen. She ran to see a masked man busting through her window and unlocking her door. After he got into the home he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger. It was jammed. He beat her with the gun and brutally raped and stabbed Sue at least 25 times. Her seven-year-old daughter witnessed most of the crime. He then moved Sue into the bedroom and put her daughter in a closet. The closet however did not have a door. She left the closet and went into the bathroom. Once he realized she had moved, he went to see what she was doing. He was naked and covered in blood. He told the little girl she better stay in the closet until he told her otherwise. Once the attacker thought that Sue was nearly dead he ordered her to call her daughter in so he could also have his way with her and finish the job. Sue then lay there and pretended she was dead.  Once he thought he had killed her, he got up and went after the daughter. After he was out of sight Sue pulled herself up and got a knife.

The attacker heard her and turned around, as soon as he turned around Sue stabbed him in the chest. He stumbled out the back door and then Sue told her daughter to go upstairs, get under her bed, lock the door and do not come out until the police or her come in to get her. Sue then heard the attacker coming back in the front. The battle continued for some time. He had gained control again and asked Sue “Where is your God now?”. She managed to turn around and push him off her, she then managed to stab her attacker in the chest one more time.

This was one of the bloodiest crime scenes experienced in 25 years and the first time in Cherokee county history that a rape ended with the female killing her attacker at the scene. How the female survived only god knows. She said she knew she couldn’t die because her baby needed her.

Holy fucking shit

These pictures. I can’t.

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