As Americans, we do love punishment..

As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way of moving throu….

Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them u….

I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman w….

Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the uni….

Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities..

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and har….

I don't think we get the degree to which technological mediums like Snapchat and Instagram are also changing our relationships. I think we will learn….

A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you….

I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as well, that there are d….

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally ar….

I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mas….

After studying dozens of sexual assault cases, it is clear to me that the "he said/she said" aspect is a big part of what makes them fraught. Many ex….

Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript - I had a pretty….

It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all sides of the issue h….

If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of r….

An interesting reversal is happening right now. The college women who kicked all this off have been superseded in the mainstream media by celebrities….

In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics are perceived….

Regarding punishment, we've learned from the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and other famous men not only that times have changed, but also that ostrac….

Believe women first. I think this is very important. We must believe women first, and if the evidence truly stacks against them - in a significant wa….

I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the B….