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Quick Hit: OCR Settlements with Universities to Serve as ‘Model’

Just learned that the Center for Public Integrity just published an article about the Office of Civil Rights’ settlements with two universities. These recent developments mean not only better policies for the two schools involved, but also nationwide: Meanwhile, the OCR’s Ali says her office will be working to push for such big-picture reform when [...]

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Discrimination Complaints to Department of Education are Up

This is something that isn’t glaringly related to being a sexual assault survivor from Tufts University, but I caught a little blurb this week that caught my eye. At the San Francisco Examiner the article “Civil rights complaints to Department of Education increase as investigations intensify” shares how the Department of Education’s Office for Civil [...]

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Quick Hit: On Feminism, Liberals, Black Folks and Antione Dodson

I came across this post on Tumblr, which highlights a real-life example of intersectionality of oppressions for poor woman of colour survivors. Apparently there’s been a meme going around making fun of Antione Dodson, the brother of a  survivor of attempted raped who voice his (very justified) fury about his sister’s attack. According to Dodson [...]

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