Celebrities and sexual violence Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/tag/celebrities-and-sexual-violence/ Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:27:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/pamelacross.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-11.27.08-AM.png?fit=32%2C30&ssl=1 Celebrities and sexual violence Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/tag/celebrities-and-sexual-violence/ 32 32 185852602 Celebrity activism: Does it help or hurt? https://pamelacross.ca/celebrity-activism-help-hurt/ https://pamelacross.ca/celebrity-activism-help-hurt/#respond Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:23:47 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=1132 I recently spoke with a woman – I will call her Sally — who has been dealing with ongoing, serious sexual harassment and assault in her workplace. She was very angry, and rightly so: she had used the proper internal Continue reading Celebrity activism: Does it help or hurt?→

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