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- News & Politics, Politics Dec 20, 2018
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Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn't mention ways to help the incarcerated Tennessee woman.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Sep 27, 2018
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With Unwanted, Dorothée Munyaneza creates a spectacle of grief and resilience
The artist revisits the ongoing horrors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 11, 2018
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How to get laid without freaking out
Advice for a victim of sexual abuse and rape. Plus: Help, I snooped and discovered what I most feared!
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2017
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Taking on my college town’s bar scene taught me that protest is a form of self-care
Too often self-care is discussed as a private act—let’s consider the power of making it public.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2017
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In the wake of the Facebook Live attack, we need to talk about black anger
Condemn the attack, but also understand the roots of black anger and violence done in Trump's name.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 6, 2016
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Stop victim blaming pedestrians and cyclists fatally struck by drivers
When motorists kill people they need to be held accountable.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Mar 10, 2016
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Is rough sex out of the question with a partner who has been raped?
Dan Savage tackles forcible consensual fucking. Plus: another case of DTMFA and a stirring defense from a Dan fan
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2016
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Men's rights activists rally in Rogers Park canceled, TV shows and movies keep flocking to Chicago, and other Chicago news
Also, a University of Chicago professor is out over alleged sexual misconduct, and DePaul’s law school cancels a Trump Tower event.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2015
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Showing rape victims how to think beyond 'report to the police'
A survivor has constructed a decision-making tool to help others figure it out.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 29, 2015
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In praise of the subtle, difficult story
Both Aimee Levitt’s recent cover story on rape and Stephanie Andersen’s take on adoption let readers draw their own conclusions. And that’s a good thing.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 24, 2015
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The University of Chicago's message to the Class of 2019: Don't be a rapist
How a band of student activists convinced the U. of C. to rethink rape on campus.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2015
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Let Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell write what she thinks about rape
Even if she's wrong, let's not muzzle Mary Mitchell—conversations change minds. Censorship doesn't.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2015
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Mary Mitchell thinks a prostitute can't be raped. She's wrong.
Unwilling sex at gunpoint is rape—no matter who the victim is.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 5, 2015
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Does a lifetime of lousy sex legitimize cheating?
Plus: Whistle-blowing in regard to your wife's sexual history, and reigniting a sex life without killing your husband
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Oct 23, 2014
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A trans man's dilemma
Will a ring scare off male prospects? Plus: a libidinal turn of the tables, a very deeply squicky fantasy, and more
- Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2014
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Elliot Rodger, hashtags, and who has the 'right' to women's bodies
A conversation with feminist author Kate Harding about the power of #YesAllWomen
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 15, 2014
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Blurring the hookup
Also this just in! Ten years without sex is an unbearably long time without sex (particularly in marriage).
- Film, Movie Review Oct 23, 2013
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After Tiller: A story in three parts
A new documentary looks at third-trimester abortion
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Aug 15, 2013
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A little help from Dan's friends
Advice this week—on rough fantasies and shitty relationships—comes from author Daniel Bergner and blogger-activist Chris Savage.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Aug 11, 2013
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Don't Kiss Me: Flash-in-the-pan fiction
Formal experimentation overshadows real emotion in Lindsay Hunter's second short-fiction volume.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 20, 2013
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Porn = incesticide?
Does smut encourage inappropriate urges or does it divert them? Plus: A gay man's mommy dearest.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 16, 2013
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Should Mom buy Playboy for her kid?
Plus: Gays have 99 problems, but drunk straight girls making out ain't one.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 3, 2013
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Who's to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich settles for an easy target.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2013
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What difference does it make why Oscar Pistorius shot her?
Deep thinking about Oscar Pistorius and South Africa
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2012
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Not only in India: Red Line station rape
Delhi has a rape crisis, but the official statistics say things are worse in Chicago