The Hand Mirror

Julie has covered John Key's disturbing sense of entitlement in his local cafe, where he clearly feels he can treat a woman as his own ...

[trigger warning for many of the links which describe some pretty violent behaviour] i had a bit of spare time yesterday, and instead of c...

NB:  These points may already have been made, and made well, elsewhere. I've been largely keeping away from the Roast Busters stuff as I...

i've only just heard that there is a parliamentary " inquiry into the funding of specialist sexual violence social services "....

There's an interesting article from Joseph Harker, essentially arguing that whiteness is invisible when we talk about sexual violence, ...

So responsibility for responding to, and presumably preventing, sexual violence will apparently now sit with the Ministry of Social Develop...

Mostly, I stay away from commenting on issues involving religion.  I am an ignorant atheist, scarcely qualified to venture into discussing m...

I don't know about other feminists, but I have very little patience with people who want to undermine equity driven responses to women...

Rape culture is all around us, right?  Excuses for sexual behaviour in which one person's desires are constructed as all important and t...

i've been reading about jimmy savile , and the news that is now coming out regarding allegations of sexual assault [trigger warning for...

Content note: this post discusses a disturbing case in which child sexual abuse has been repeatedly minimised by our courts.  The links post...

Back in April this year, the Law Commission consulted the New Zealand public on their review of alternative trial processes for sexual viol...

Trigger warnings for rape, substance abuse and addiction, general enragingness.  Also excessive use of CAPS LOCK. I heard a little bit abo...

Another rugby tour, another allegation of sexual assault by a rugby player, this time Junior All Black Nathan Harris , accused of raping a w...

i want to start by thanking LJ for her work on organising this week's series of posts on the law relating to sexual violence.  there has...

We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to ask for a criminal justice system which is fairer, more effective and less traumatising for surv...

Many thanks to Georgia Knowles, National Co-ordinator of Nga Whitiki Whanau Ahuru Mowai O Aotearoa/National Collective of Rape Crisis and Re...

If we accept that the criminal justice system doesn't work for survivors of sexual violence now, and that the current Law Commission ...