Sarah Tofte is a researcher with Human Rights Watch, and organization more known for its international policy and anti-death penalty work than its work on women's issues — in fact, its website on women's issues in the U.S. is sparse to be sure. But when we saw Tofte's byline on an Op Ed in the L.A. Times last month…
If you ever wanted a step-by-step description of how a rape exam is conducted in California (your state may vary - mine does), Sarah Tofte's OpEd in the LA Times is a good place to start. It's also a good place to start wondering why some women even bother - as Tofte points out, at least 400,000 collected rape kits in…
Officials at a Texas high school have their panties in a twist about nude pictures of women in the background of a German textbook. They will either ban the book or put a sticker over the naughty bits. • More banning! This time across the globe in India, some Hindu groups want to ban the Mike Meyers/ Jessica Alba film
Personally, I think there's an upside to the fact that rape victims are billed for their rape kits. What better to take your mind off what stands to be your life's most damaging trauma than a Kafkaesque little fuck-you letter from our for-profit health care system? [US News]
