Known as the Adult Survivors Act, the measure would extend to adults the same rights that the state’s Child Victims Act gives to survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
sexual assault
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Roy Moore, US culture, and the state of our politics
It’s good that these stories are making the news, but there’s a danger that they’ll skew public perception about sexual assault.
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Film explores impact of when a rape results in motherhood
For all of our debates over the right for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies, there’s less conversation about women who decide to keep children conceived through rape. Filmmaker and Flower City Arts Center Artist-In-Residence Nicholle La Vann is creating a documentary about her own assault and her broken relationship with her daughter, in the effort […]
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Feedback 7/3
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Good. Old. Boys.
How wonderful to see so many male politicians standing up for women’s rights. Governor Cuomo has been on a statewide tour, pushing his Women’s Equality Act, which attacks human trafficking, sexual harassment, and employment and housing discrimination. A couple of weeks ago, Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver spoke out at a Women’s Equality Coalition rally in […]
