“Sexual violence knows no race, color, class or gender, but the response to sexual violence does,” Burke stated. “The response to sexual violence is highly gendered and highly racialized and definitely defined by class.”

The letter P strikes again.

How can Passion of the Christ have a sequel? Doesn’t the main character die in the first one?

I do? I’m afraid of getting deodorant marks on my clothes since every shirt I own is black.

FFS

“He’s either the world’s best liar, or he’s telling the truth.”

It’s a shame she feels she needs the wig, because she’s one of the rare ones who’s got the features to pull off that look. Like an Erté sculpture, almost.

Yea, she summed up exactly what it feels like. I’ve never put it into words but she managed to. I can’t speak for anyone other than myself but I never felt like I was allowed to mourn my assaults without scrutiny. It makes it so much worse, it keeps the wound fresh. How can you get over it if you aren’t allowed to…

Hmm. I think I am going to watch this. I like the discussion on victimhood. I’ve been thinking about the term “victim” a lot lately. I dislike the word, I dislike the concept. It makes me uncomfortable. I’m trying to figure out why.

Leftover chicken and garlic mashed cauliflower. This tweet is my life.

While I empathize with what she has endured and am glad she has a voice now, I hope she uses that voice to take back all the garbage supportive shit she said about Victor Salva and how she loved working with him despite him being a convicted child molester.....because her attempts to call out everyone for not speaking…

Good riddance. I don’t care if he didn’t actively molest or abuse a child, he’s still complicit in the production of child pornography and the abuse that entails.

The number of people that practically refused to get this was infuriating. Intersectionality people!

Yeah, this just reminds me of all the missing aboriginal women throughout Canada (1100?) that the various authorities aren’t even bothering to look into, despite having been reported as missing for ages and their families trying their hardest to get some kind of attention.

Yep. My partner and I go to the village fairly often. We work and live a stone’s throw away. This is absolutely chilling. We’ve been following this story since before they even had a suspect, and now that MacArthur has been charged... I don’t feel one bit better. The most disgusting part is that while the victims’…

I cannot give you enough stars for this.

Torontonian here. The area where they found the dismembered remains is adjacent to a recreational site that I would go to on the reg during the summer months. I also briefly lived on the periphery of Toronto’s gay village where many of McAthur’s suspected victims went missing.

And people wonder why BLM protested police presence at the Pride parade, and why Pride Toronto banned cops from marching in uniform.