Upon Further Review
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
A UVA alum goes back for the first rush week since the Rolling Stone story.
Jia Tolentino Jezebel Jan 2015 30min Permalink
The pandemic of violence against women, the threats online, and the harassment on the streets are ongoing. But women’s voices assumed an unprecedented power in 2014.
Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Dec 2014 20min Permalink
A brutal assault and the struggle for justice at the University of Virginia.
Note 12/5/14: Rolling Stone has stated that they now doubt details of the facts reported in "A Rape on Campus."
More information is available in T. Rees Shapiro's "U-Va. Fraternity to Rebut Claims of Gang Rape in Rolling Stone" from The Washington Post.
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Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Nov 2014 40min Permalink
In the gentrifying Bywater, the intertwined destinies of a legendary gay pool-bar and a woman who was drugged there.
Kat Stoeffel Talking Points Memo Dec 2014 10min Permalink
Five of the sixteen women speak.
Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham, Paul Farhi, Mary Pat Flaherty Washington Post Nov 2014 30min Permalink
An artist mistakes years of friendship for lust, culminating in an assault.
"He has never felt such urgency. Everything is in his way, her jacket, her sweater, the lace bra he imagines she bought for him. He feels the skin of her bare waist, from under the skirt, her thigh. The night has made her skin cool. Her hair snags on the wall. An earring clinks through a sidewalk grate. She turns to avoid his open mouth. Her cheek drags against coarse brick. His eyes are open."
Rebecca Davis Drunk Monkeys Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The survivors who “have built the most effective, organized anti-rape movement since the late ’70s.”
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Sep 2014 25min Permalink
On the narrative of sexual coercion.
Mary Beard London Review of Books Aug 2000 10min Permalink
A flamboyant player, a charismatic coach, and a sex predator.
Greg Hanlon SB Nation Jul 2014 20min Permalink
In the aftermath of rape, a transition from prey to predator.
Kathleen Hale Hazlitt Jun 2014 25min Permalink
Inside the lack of an investigation into Florida State Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.
Walt Bogdanich New York Times Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Jane Neubauer was just out of basic training when a secretive military unit recruited her for an undercover mission. She and the Air Force disagree about what happened next.
Jacob Siegel The Daily Beast Mar 2014 25min Permalink
On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.
Kiera Feldman New Republic Feb 2014 Permalink
In 1995, Ramirez allegedly raped Patricia Esparza. He was tortured and killed weeks later. Now she’s charged with his murder. Is she responsible?
Emily Bazelon Slate Feb 2014 40min Permalink
Meggett was an All-Pro running back for the New York Giants. He was also a serial rapist.
Greg Hanlon SB Nation Jan 2014 45min Permalink
An essay on dick culture.
Sarah Nicole Prickett Medium Dec 2013 15min Permalink
Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.
Stacey May Fowles The Walrus Nov 2013 15min Permalink
Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.
Stephanie Mencimer Washington Monthly Oct 2013 2h30min Permalink
One year later, a dispatch from Steubenville.
Katie J.M. Baker Jezebel Sep 2013 15min Permalink
The Mennonite women of the Manitoba Colony would awake with blood and semen stains, dried grass in their hair, and tiny bits of rope on their wrists and ankles. Their rapists, armed with a veterinary tranquilizer converted to spray form, were eight young men from their own community.
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky Vice Aug 2013 35min Permalink
Was justice served in Steubenville?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Aug 2013 40min Permalink
The dangerous work of harvesting your food.
Bernice Yeung, Grace Rubenstein Center for Investigative Reporting Jun 2013 25min Permalink
What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2013 30min Permalink
“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2013 30min Permalink