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Congress Passes Landmark Bill Prohibiting Employers from Mandating Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Claims
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Sexual Harassment, Aggression and Violence Victimisation Among Mobile Dating App and Website Users in Australia Use of mobile dating apps and websites has increased exponentially in the past 10 years. While these platforms create opportunities to develop and pursue social, romantic and/ or sexual relationships both online and in the real world, media reporting and broader commentary has raised concerns about users being subjected to high levels of sexual harassment, aggression and violence. The current study surveyed 9,987 dating app or website users in Australia to explore the prevalence and nature of dating app facilitated sexual violence (DAFSV) victimisation within the sample. Findings revealed that three-quarters of users were subjected to online DAFSV, and a third were subjected to in-person DAFSV, perpetrated by someone they met on a dating app or website. Users often experienced repeat victimisation. DAFSV victimisation was particularly common among LGB+ communities. This study provides valuable information to aid development of policies and practices to prevent the occurrence and recurrence of DAFSV.
Sexual Harassment, Assault Affect Women's Health
Sexual Violence, Intangible Harm, and the Promise of Transformative Remedies This Article describes alternative remedies that survivors of sexual violence can access inside and outside the legal system. It describes the leading restorative justice approaches and recommends one of the newest and most innovative of those-"transformative justice"-to heal the intangible harms of sexual violence. The Article also discusses the intersectional effects of sexual violence on women of color and their communities. It explains the importance of transformative justice's intersectional approach to redress sexual violence. Transformative justice offers community-based, victim-centric methods that cultivate deep, lasting healing for sexual violence survivors and their communities, with genuine accountability for those who have caused harm. Although transformative justice has developed outside the legal system, its principles and methods are targeted toward the unique, often intangible harms experienced by sexual violence survivors. Therefore, transformative justice remedies should be available alongside and inside the legal system so survivors, their impacted communities, and those who cause harm can benefit from them.
Time's Up: As the Me Too Movement Continues to Shed Light on Sexual Harassment and Assault, Sparking Changes in Various Industries, the Legal and Judicial Systems Have Been Slow to Adapt

Before Me Too

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Fox News Women: Roger Ailes Asked to See My Underwear, If I Was Single, and More: In the wake of Gretchen Carlson's sexual harassment suit against boss Roger Ailes, several women who once worked at Fox News tell The Daily Beast that Ailes also harassed th
The Liberation of Kesha Out in the control room, producer Hal Willner, a white-haired, Falstaffian 61-year-old, nods along - the track is intended for a multi-artist tribute LP he's assembling for late T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, one of Kesha's many old-rockdude heroes (she calls him her "glitter twin," and namechecked T. Rex's Electric Warrior on the 2012 track "Wherever You Are"). [...]who gets to decide?' Like, they can shove it up their ass." Instead, she wants to be human, to be vulnerable, to let her life veer off-pitch once in a while, so that "maybe some kid out there" - in a society that offers a selfie-tweaking app called Facetune - "would be like, 'Oh, that's OK, to be just a person. In a New York court last February, Kesha burst into tears as a judge ruled against her request for a quick injunction that would allow her to record for a different label. (The same judge later dismissed the bulk of her case, in a decision Kesha is appealing even as Dr. Luke's defamation lawsuit continues, with no trial date in sight.) As photos of that moment and word of the judgment spread, her cause became an international sensation, with many of music's most famous women (and some men) expressing solidarity: [...]began her habit of piling on a series of "by-choice scars."
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