Our current understanding of sexual assault was born during the women's movement -- and created real legal change

Research shows only 2-8 percent of reported rapes are false, so why does the public act like the opposite is true?

Here's a quintessential example of everything wrong with how we talk about rape

An official police Twitter handle joshed around with sports fans using rape metaphors yesterday

A dust-up over a joke about a Republican politician's war injury reveals conservative hypocrisy.

"Catch and Kill" explores how legal definitions & media can police survivors' experiences

Ms. Magazine's blog ran a bad blog post comparing ISIS to college campuses, and right wingers are loving it

Carroll’s lawyer said she “looks forward to obtaining additional compensatory and punitive damages”

It's fitting that these two cultural firestorms converged -- and a sad reflection of how rape stories get twisted

Attempting to rank sexual traumas in terms of privilege does nothing to stop those traumas from happening

A profile of the man accused of raping Emma Sulkowicz discredits the alleged victim's story. Sound familiar?

From "personal injury" to a "bad hookup," higher ed admins have come up with a range of euphemisms for campus rape

Nuance is not the enemy of justice, and other lessons for non-journalists in Columbia's damning report

Coulter also said that rape isn't actually rape unless the victim has been "hit on the head with a brick"

Yes, the anti-abortion movement has gotten more extreme in recent months