Day: January 30, 2007

  • linkage 1/30/07

    Via UBUNTU! by way of brownfemipower – “Duke-ing It Out in the Court of Public Opinion,” an op-ed on the Duke rape case from Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor and law professor at the New England School of Law. Piny from Feministe critiques the woman-disregarding concept of “fetal abuse.” Via Poplicks’ Question of the Week:…

  • Report a rape – get arrested?

    That’s precisely what happened to a young woman in Tampa, Florida. After reporting her rape to the Tampa police, she was arrested and kept in jail for two nights after the police ran a background check and found a four year old warrant on her record. This article from the Tampa Tribune describes how this…