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Campus Sexual Assault

Dear Fellow Millennials: Why don’t we vote?

My mom, who forever has a dark sense of humor, always jokes that when her generation dies off, things will get better. She talks about how my siblings and I — and our generation — have a different set of values than what she grew up with — differences that she sometimes laments and sometimes praises. So, mom, while I don’t necessarily look forward to your death, nor do I think that the death of

Campus Sexual Assault

Ehrhart is leaving office, but another Ehrhart maybe replacing him

Rep. Earl Ehrhart recently announced that he’s retiring and progressives across the state are counting down the days. For 30 years, Ehrhart has used his position to promote the most destructive conservative policies. In recent years he’s championed legislation that attacks rape survivors while protecting those accused of rape. He’s targeted members of the LGBTQ community, students, immigrants and women. He’s threatened to pull funding for universities that didn’t bow to his backwards policies. Early

Campus Sexual Assault

New emails expose Rep. Earl Ehrhart’s efforts to bully colleges into protecting accused rapists

Rep. Earl Ehrhart’s miserable pet project to protect accused rapists at Georgia college campuses won’t die. Early last year, Ehrhart filed a bill that would have protected accused rapists on college campuses across Georgia by blocking schools from investigating campus sexual assault claims without an immediate police investigation. The legislation and its attempted reincarnations failed, but emails recently obtained by Buzzfeed news have revealed even more about Ehrhart’s backward efforts. According to the report, Ehrhart

Campus Sexual Assault

It’s time to end the rape crisis

Thanks to the dedicated work of many rape and sexual assault survivors, a harmful anti-survivor bill from extremist Rep. Earl Ehrhart was killed this past legislative session. Now, a new report from the National Women’s Law Center speaks to just how widespread and devastating sexual assault is — starting with young women in high school. By the time they are 18, more than one in five young women have been sexually assaulted. Yes, that’s right,

2017 Legislative Session

Wrapping up the 2017 legislative session

Georgia’s Legislature adjourned for good last week, just in time for the Masters Tournament (as always). While the at-times tumultuous session was set to end on Thursday, the gavels didn’t come down officially until early Friday morning, capping off 40 days of the most intriguing political theater in recent memory. Here’s what happened: Rigged Maps: House Bill 515, sponsored by disgraced former judge Johnnie Caldwell (WATCH Samantha Bee’s piece on Caldwell here), went down in

Campus Sexual Assault

Survivor of Campus Rape: We Demand Better

By Guest Blogger Grace Starling Rape isn’t a partisan issue. No one ever considered rape victims when writing House Bill 51, and that is dangerous for every Georgia citizen. HB 51 — the campus rape cover-up bill — which passed the Georgia House of Representatives last week, is a clear example of egregiously biased and shoddy legislation. The bill requires a university to report all felonies that occur on a college campus or by a student