Prof. Sarah Pedersen

What we women felt as the verdicts came in against Russell Brand thetimes.com/life-style/life…

Einer der besten und berührendsten Spots, die ich je gesehen habe. Und das zu einem sehr schlimmen und traurigen Thema - zu dem es sehr wichtig ist, dass es viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommt. Daher bitte teilen. #MonstersEverywhere @NOMOREorg

Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail bbc.in/4im0eQs

I shared Tara Bergin's Forward Prize winning poem with my online group in Afghanistan yesterday and this is Shadmana's response. It's a 🧵 but worth it. She's 16.

Call for action as stats reveal close to 100 sex crimes at Scotland's swimming pools and leisu… sundaypost.com/fp/changing-a… via @Sunday_Post

Dolly Parton died today. She was 80. Tennessee raised her in a one-room cabin in Sevier County, fourth of twelve kids. Her daddy couldn't read or write. So in 1995 she started mailing free books to children under five. Every month. Over 300 million books since. Three and a half million a month right now, across five countries. The kids called her the Book Lady, and I think she liked that better than most of the titles she earned. When the wildfires tore through Sevier County in 2016, the Dollywood Foundation stood up the My People Fund inside of 48 hours. A thousand dollars a month to every family that lost a home. Renters and owners both. Comfortable and broke both. No means testing. No paperwork maze. About 900 families, $8.9 million out the door, and a final check that came in at five grand instead of one because the donations kept rolling in. Back in '91 she looked at a 35% dropout rate in her county and told every seventh and eighth grader to pick a buddy. Both of you graduate, both of you get $500 from me. Dropout rate fell to 6%. She understood something most social programs never figure out - people don't get pulled out alone. They get pulled out in pairs. A million dollars to Vanderbilt in April 2020 that funded the early-stage work behind the Moderna vaccine. Another million for pediatric infectious disease. Another million out of her own bank account for Helene, with Dollywood matching it. This past February, East Tennessee Children's Hospital took her name. And she paid for all of it the way I've always believed it ought to be paid for. She built businesses that made real money, then aimed that money straight at her people. The Dollywood Foundation ran on Dollywood profits. She stayed a hillbilly on purpose. Big hair, big laugh, dressed like a jukebox, and she let every man in Nashville underestimate her right up until she owned the whole operation. Dangerous women do good deeds too. Rest easy, Dolly. Tennessee's got a hole in it tonight.

Bernera groups face financial ruin from legal costs trib.al/aqWfWHi

In which a humble man endures the great burden of leisure: voidifremoved.co.uk/p/the-il…

Rape is a grave, systematic, and widespread human rights violations in international, regional and national law, that could also amount to torture. While victims of rape can be of any sex or age, rape continues to be committed on an wide scale against women and girls, and is therefore also a specific form of sex and gender based violence against them. There is no doubt that allegations of rape should be investigated swiftly and impartially to determine if rape has occurred; and that victims should be provided with access to effective, trauma-informed and victim centered reporting, assistance and justice mechanisms. However, that most certainly does NOT turn rape into a spectrum nor should it ever be spoken of in those terms. ّInsinuations that acts of rape could fall on a spectrum, risk undermining the important progress we have made around the globe in criminalizing rape, which - as my mandate has argued- should cover rape against all persons, including marital rape and all acts of penetration of a sexual nature, with the lack of consent at its center. (which should include a rigorous analysis of the context in which consent may have been given or withheld). My predecessor dedicated a whole stand-alone report to examining the issue of rape, which I share here again for those interested: ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…

The discipline of sociology has been under fire during the Arday affair. In this article I explain how Arday’s work falls woefully short of established standards of sociology. Tagging @redrumlisa @OxSoc @ashleytrubin @ProfAliceS thecritic.co.uk/impoverished…