ACTIVIST RESOURCES
Get Smart, Know your Rights!
DISSENTING VOICES AIMS & GOALS
PRIMARY & RELEVANT LEGAL DOCUMENTS / FEDERAL LAWS*
*Know Your IX & EROC provides comprehensive summaries on all of these laws
Title IX: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html
Dear Colleague Letters: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/memosdcltrs/index.html
Jeanne Clery Act: https://clerycenter.org/policy-resources/the-clery-act/
Title II: http://endrapeoncampus.org/title-ii/
Title VI: http://endrapeoncampus.org/title-vi/
The Campus SAVE Act: http://endrapeoncampus.org/the-campus-save-act/
Campus Safety and Accountability Act: http://endrapeoncampus.org/the-campus-safety-and-accountability-act/
Yes Means Yes Standard: http://endrapeoncampus.org/yes-means-yes/
TITLE IX ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS & RESOURCES
Know Your IX: http://knowyourix.org/
End Rape on Campus (EROC): http://endrapeoncampus.org
Faculty Against Rape (FAR): http://www.facultyagainstrape.net
Dr. Caroline Heldman (Co-Founder of EROC & FAR; Professor of Political Science at Occidental College): https://drcarolineheldman.com/
OTHER ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS
ACT UP NY (AIDS Activism - Effective tools for Organizing, Resources, and History)
http://www.actupny.org/documents/documents.html (“The following documents are about ACT UP New York's organization, and means of how to become an activist. We are dedicated to empowering groups to take direct action to help end the AIDS Crisis. ACT UP is committed to a democratic inclusive activism.”)
IN THE PRESS
Why Even Small, Progressive Grinnell College Has Trouble Dealing With Sexual Assault (Huffington Post):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/grinnell-sexual-assault_n_6780632.html
Education Department Opens Investigation Of Grinnell College, But Not Because It Asked For It (Huffington Post)
FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES
The Hunting Ground http://thehuntinggroundfilm.com
Fight Back, Fight AIDS 15 Years of ACT UP http://www.actupny.org/video/
READINGS
“Sexuality” by Catherine MacKinnon
“Sexual Terrorism” by Carole Sheffield
“After Neoliberalism? From Crisis to Organizing for Queer Economic Justice” by Lisa Duggan (http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/after-neoliberalism-from-crisis-to-organizing-for-queer-economic-justice/)
BOOKS
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Andrea Pino and Annie Clark
Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory by Chris Weedon
Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy by Lisa Duggan