The Campus: "No Rape at Middlebury?" Op/Ed
This Op/Ed came in response to a poster campaign (posters put up with sexist quotes overheard on campus), the college's official sexual violence reporting numbers, and the designation of a new Task Force on the Status of Women in 2007. In a scathing and sarcastic appraisal of the college's response to sexual assault, Garcia writes that the college culture of sexism and assault hasn't changed much since the DU mannequin incident in 1988. Despite the fact that the college's reports show almost no sexual assault on campus, Garcia discusses their failure to implement the suggestions of past Task Forces on The Status of Women, and the campus culture of degrading women, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and sexual education through pornography. Here is the original print op/ed well as the website version.
NOTE: Related content/context in the FAM collection on both the sexism poster campaign (search "Sexual Harassment is an Issue Op/Ed) and the use of pornography at a Middlebury Common's event (search Pirate Party), both mentioned in this op/ed.
Alexandra Garcia
November 29, 2007
Task Force on the Status of Women: Comments from Feminist Action at Middlebury
This document includes FAM's suggestions to the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury in 2007. The Task Force that these suggestions were sent to published their report in 2008. These suggestions cover blue light phones, social houses, the health center, rape/sexual abuse/sexual harassment, certain on-campus parties, public safety crime report e-mails, majors, and getting female faculty to stay on campus.
NOTE: Related content/context can be found in the "Reports on the Status of Gender and Women" collection. Search "(2008) Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury College."
FAM
September 30, 2007
Morgan Grady-Benson Interview Recording
Morgan Grady-Benson
This is the audio recording of an interview with Morgan Grady-Benson '18 (she/her/hers). Morgan was a Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies major. At Middlebury she was very involved with It Happens Here and founded the anti-sexual assault performance activist group, Stares and Stairs. Morgan was also a spin instructor with YouPower and involved with Middlebury College Radio.
Morgan Grady-Benson and Elissa Asch
May 4, 2020
Morgan Grady-Benson Interview Transcription
Morgan Grady-Benson
This is the transcription of an interview with Morgan Grady-Benson '18 (she/her/hers). Morgan was a Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies major. At Middlebury she was very involved with It Happens Here and founded the anti-sexual assault performance activist group, Stares and Stairs. Morgan was also a spin instructor with YouPower and involved with Middlebury College Radio.
Morgan Grady-Benson and Elissa Asch
May 4, 2020