Category: Rape

Male Survivors Video

Episode #13: Male Survivors – Engage by Uplift

Uplift- Online Communities Against Sexual Violence

Published on Oct 7, 2015

CALL TO ACTION: For this week’s call to action, we want you to think about why it’s harder for men to come forward after a sexual assault or abuse. What can we do as a community to make it easier for men to get the support that they need? Share your answers in the comments down below or on social media with the hashtag #EngageUplift.

For more resources for male survivors:
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http://malesurvivor.org

Engage by Uplift tackles the difficult issues surrounding sexual abuse that the YouTube and online communities face. We’re starting real talk for real change.

Each week, our host Kat Lazo discusses abuse and how it manifests in virtual spaces. Watch and collaborate with us through weekly calls to action, and join in with some of your favorite YouTubers as they consider the issues in round table discussions.

Guest host: Daniel Wagner

Directed by Kelly Kend: http://kellykend.com/

Written by Das Chapin

Real talk for Real Change. #EngageUplift
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Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

By Susan Brownmiller. (1993)

From Amazon.com: “The bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis—essential reading in the era of #MeToo.
 
“A major work of history.”—The Village Voice • One of the New York Public Library’s 100 Books of the Century

As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, Against Our Will stands as a unique document of the history, politics, and sociology of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and women under the law. Fact by fact, Susan Brownmiller pulls back the centuries of damaging lies and misrepresentations to reveal how rape has been accepted in all societies and how it continues to profoundly affect women’s lives today.
 
A keen and prescient analyst, a detailed historian, Susan Brownmiller discusses the consequences of rape in biblical times, rape as an accepted spoil of war, as well as child molestation, marital rape, and date rape (a term that she coined). In lucid, persuasive prose, Brownmiller uses her experience as a journalist to create a definitive, devastating work of lasting social importance.
 
Praise for Against Our Will

“The most comprehensive study of rape ever offered to the public . . . It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime.”—Newsweek

“A classic . . . No one who reads it will come away untouched.”—The Village Voice 

“Chilling and monumental . . . Deserves a place next to those rare books which force us to change the way we feel about what we know.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A landmark work, one of the most significant books to emerge in this decade.”—Houston Chronicle 

“A definitive text, startling, compelling, and a landmark.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“An overwhelming indictment. We need it, it is a hideous revelation and it should be required reading.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Chilling, monumental, exhaustive, detailed, absorbing and original. . . . Brownmiller’s greatest contribution is establishing the continuity between rape and other facets of American culture.”—Commonweal”