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Amy Quesada

Jen Byrd

3102 WGST

16 April, 2019

Topic: What steps can we take going forward in order to ensure the elimination of rape culture,

while also taking steps to justice for survivors?

Annotated Bibliography

“Ashley Judd: How Can We—As A Society—Heal From Sexual Violence?” Ted Radio

Hour- Gender, Power and Fairness, performance by Ashley Judd, NPR, 1 Feb.

2019.

This is an interview about a ted talk from Ashley Judd describing the patriarchy and

misogynistic horrors she has faced throughout her life and career. She also discusses her opinion

on solutions to these problems.

Ashley Judd says that we first need to begin to solve this issue by digital media literacy

with a gendered lens. These means through kids, schools, caregivers and parents. She also states

that we need to grow support lines and help groups so that victims can help each other. We must

disrupt gender violence as it is occurring. To end her solutions, she says we need to simply

believe women.

Cheung, Kylie. “Proposed Title IX Changes Favor Accused Rapists And Harm

Survivors.” Feministing, Dec. 2019, feministing.com/2018/11/26/proposed-title-

ix- changes-favor-accused-rapists-and-harm-survivors/.
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This blog is about how Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released policy changes to Title

IX under the Trump administration. The changes in the policy make the definition of sexual

harassment a lot more narrow and less strict. It also limits the schools abilities to investigate

incidents reported that didn’t take place on school property. The policy also makes it so that the

accused students can cross-examine their accusers, which would allow for both the accused and

the victim to be in the same room.

The author believes that this proposed policy change will likely only lead to less victims

reporting what happened to them, due to intimidation.

Guzman-Lopez, Adolfo. “After Sexual Assault Scandal, USC Class Gives Students Say

In Changes.” California Public Radio, 13 Dec. 2018.

This segment is about a new class being offered at the University of Southern California.

The class is meant to give students a say in the changes that will be made to the school after

hundreds of women’s complaints of sexual assault were ignored.

Students studied in class how sexual assault is investigated and how universities handle

the issue. The class believes that a major problem with this subject is that students aren’t given

enough information about sexual assault. The proposed solution to this is to create a student app

that offers various sexual assault resources. Another solution to sexual assault on campus that

the students thought of was to have a specific position on the board of trustees solely for the

prevention of sexual assault.

Hoechstetter, Marissa. “Seeking Certified Justice for Survivors of Doctor Sex Abuse.” Ms.

Magazine, 18 Feb. 2019, msmagazine.com/blog/2019/02/18/seeking-certified-

justice- survivors-doctor-sex-abuse/.
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This article is about a woman, mother, survivor that went on a journey to get a council

member to sponsor legislation that would allow her to clear her abuser’s name from her twins’

birth certificates. Hoechstetter writes about how as soon as she realized that her OB/GYN had

been sexually abusing her through his job, she reported him. She claims that when she reported

she found out that she was far from the doctor’s first victim. She was told false statements

throughout the entire process from people trying to persuade her from starting this war against

her abuser. She is working to make it possible for the possible thousands of women that have

been abused by this man to be able to redact his name from their children’s birth certificates.

This law would be a huge step forward for women.

Lomax, Tamura. “On #Survivingrkelly: Deconstruction, Accountability, and a

#Networkofpredation.” The Feminist Wire, 7 Jan. 2019,

thefeministwire.com/2019/01/ __trashed-2/.

This blog was about rape culture, sexual appropriation, discrimination, and rape, all

regarding to R.Kelly’s several sex crimes. The author explains how she was a fan of R.Kelly’s

music in the past and that even after news started to come to light about R.Kelly’s activities and

wrongdoings, she still enjoyed his music at first. She believes that the reason so many people

looked passed what he was doing to women was due to the normalization of sexual predation.

Hearing that he had married a 15 year old, was looked over because Black women are often seen

as sexual objects and therefore are “rape-able”, and Black men are looked good upon for landing

a “young, good looking” female. She also claimed that listening to/watching/supporting R.Kelly

is qualified as engaging with a “misogynoirist terrorist who has a history of systemically

capturing, exploiting, violating, and traumatizing Black girls and women.”

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In regards to fixing this rape culture, the author believes that mass-mediated frameworks

for resistance from several outlooks, as well as learning and understanding that bodily autonomy

is a right, is the first step to healing. We need to begin to decipher what is actually right versus

what has been culturally permissible. She also states that we, as a society, need to unlearn the

mis-teachings of what is or is not okay when it comes to predation and that we need to stop

supporting public figures and/or anyone that displays rape culture values.

Maier, Shana L. “Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners’ Perceptions of Their Relationship with

Doctors, Rape Victim Advocates, Police, and Prosecutors.” Journal of

Interpersonal Violence 27.7 (2012): 1314–1340. Web.

This journal is about how the first SANE program began. SANE stands for Sexual

Assault Nurse Examiner. SANE programs were started back in the 1970s in response to the

poorly treated rape victims by hospital personnel. SANE programs have doctors, rape victim

advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors all working together to ensure the best care of rape

victims.

Quesada, Amy, and Ashley Moore. “Sexual Assault.” 23 Mar. 2019.

I interviewed a close friend of mine, Ashley Moore. The purpose of this interview was to
get a better understanding of how sexual assault really affects someone rather than just focusing
on the numbers and statistics. I wanted to get more personal with the research because personal
stories resonate stronger than statistics and facts ever will. She said that she suffers everyday
with PTSD symptoms after her trauma. She said that she never told law enforcement because
she assumed nobody would believe her over a man.

Shaw, Susan. “From Sexism to Sex Abuse in Southern Baptist Churches.” Ms.

Magazine, 12 Feb. 2019, msmagazine.com/blog/2019/02/12/sexism-sex-abuse-

southern-baptist-church/.
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This article is about the often misogynistic, homophobic, anti-feminist ways of Southern

Baptist churches. Shaw claims that just as the Catholic Church seems to create an evironment

that is ripe for abuse, this is all quite similar to Souther Baptists. In the article, Shaw also

expressed how the church has known about sexual abuse for decades but argue that “local church

autonomy” prevents anyone from taking action. She goes in to say that most Southern Baptist

churches don’t hold past abuse against pastors, because they truly believe that in order to ask

God for forgiveness, there has to be the intent to actually change his ways.

Shaw believes that taking certain steps can help this problem greatly. She says that

having a registry of past perpetrators could be used a resource for other churches to use when

deciding whether or not to hire a pastor. She also states that they need to start educating people

in the churches about what abuse consists of, how to report abuse, as well as how to just support

the survivors.

“Tarana Burke on What Me Too Is Really About.” Performance by Trevor Noah, and Tarana

Burke, YouTube, The Daily Show, 4 June 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?

v=GfJ3bIAQOKg.

Tarana Burke speaks on the intersectionality of sexual violence. She states how rape does

not discriminate, sexual violence happens to every gender, every culture. However, the way

society reacts and thinks of sexual violence differs between the gender and culture. She explains

that black and brown girls are viewed in a way that makes it hard for them to be of the sexually

abused. She also explains that for instance R.Kelly’s music may not be him, it is still important

we don’t support it. She believes that if R.Kelly’s victims were white or even black boys that
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action would have been taken years earlier.

Worthen, Meredith G. F., and Wallace, Samantha A. “Intersectionality and Perceptions About

Sexual Assault Education and Reporting on College Campuses.” Family

Relations, vol. 66, no. 1, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., Feb. 2017, pp. 180–

96, doi:10.1111/fare. 12240.

This journal is about universities and campuses implementing sexual assault

awareness/education programs and how to make these programs more intersectional. The

journal states that developing a better understanding of intersectionality regarding to reporting

assaults, awareness, education, what marginalized groups think of the on campus sexual assault

programs—can help increase the impact positively and promote cultural changes on college

campuses.