issue: Stopping Violence Against Women

The Associated Press reports: “The state Supreme Court will censure a judge and suspend him without pay for 31 days for saying a 14-year-old rape victim was ‘older than her chronological age.'”

Alexandra from Feministing writes: “We, as a feminist community, have spent the last four days in shock after the Isla Vista shooting. That the roots of the tragedy — violent misogyny — may be too intimately familiar to so many of us hasn’t softened the blow. Here we’ve tried to compile some of the best feminist writing in the aftermath, highlighting how our movements are processing, responding, and fighting back.”

Jennifer Medina writes for The New York Times: “A deadly attack by a gunman obsessed by grievances toward women near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has touched off an anguished conversation here and on social media about the ways women are perceived sexually and the violence against them.”

Sasha Weiss writes for The New Yorker: “There is something about the fact that Twitter is primarily designed for speech—for short, strong, declarative utterance—that makes it an especially powerful vehicle for activism, a place of liberation.”