2017 Sexual Abuse Revelations – 2018 Sexual Ethics Engagements

Below is an active archive of particular responses to the charges and movements related to issues of sexual violence emerging in 2017. I hope to manage this post as a collection of primary sources for the further development of sexual ethics.

Women’s March 2017
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3060-march-as-feminists-not-as-women
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.bustle.com/articles/201378-what-every-white-woman-attending-the-womens-march-needs-to-know
http://www.brittanytoliver.com/blog/2016/11/16/why-i-do-not-support-the-one-million-women-march-on-washington

#metoo
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2018/01/05/the_new_york_times_joins_the_chorus_of_voices_arguing_that_metoo_will_end.html
https://verdict.justia.com/2018/01/03/sexual-revolution-cause-sexual-misconduct-revealed-metoo

Donald Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/listening-to-what-trumps-accusers-have-told-us
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-the-truth-the-sexual-assault-allegations
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

Harvey Weinstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html

Louis CK
Accusations – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html
Louis CK’s response – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/louis-ck-statement.html
Responses
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/opinion/louis-ck-not-funny-harassment.html

Aziz Ansair
Original piece – https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355
Responses
http://www.katykatikate.com/2018/01/not-that-bad_15.html
https://jezebel.com/babe-what-are-you-doing-1822114753
http://www.survjustice.org/blog/the-azizansari-accusation-and-the-metoo-movement

Cat Person – New Yorker
Original piece – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

Sexual Abuse and Disabilities
https://www.npr.org/series/575502633/abused-and-betrayed

Incels and the Toronto Van Attack
http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2018/04/24/incels-hail-toronto-van-driver-who-killed-10-as-a-new-elliot-rodger-talk-of-future-acid-attacks-and-mass-rapes/

Stanley Hauerwas on John Howard Yoder
Hauerwas’ piece – http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2017/10/18/4751367.htm
Responses
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2017/11/30/4774014.htm
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/historical-justice-era-metoo-legacies-john-howard-yoder

General Engagements
https://jezebel.com/theres-nothing-more-ordinary-than-abuse-1821615223
http://theweek.com/articles/749978/female-price-male-pleasure

Engagements coming from a broadly Mennonite context (or background)
https://intoaccount.org/2017/11/21/a-manifesto-on-ass-grabbing/
http://www.queerpgh.com/throw-rock-hit-rapist-me-too/
http://www.ourstoriesuntold.com/we-are-the-answer-weve-been-waiting-for/
https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/publications/conrad-grebel-review/issues/winter-2017/afterword
https://intoaccount.org/2018/01/26/responding-to-reports-of-abuse-whos-getting-it-right-and-where-does-theology-come-in/

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