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Time’s Up UK fund pays out £1M to combat sexual assault and harassment

sudshr47 October 11, 2018

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When the Justice and Equality Fund was set up earlier this year, it was kicked off with a £1million ($1,3 million) donation from Emma Watson and signed off on by more than 200 British women in the entertainment industry. 

The foundation — the UK counterpart of the Time’s Up Legal Defence Fund in the U.S. — is working to end systemic harassment and abuse. Now the organisation has made its first major donation to British women’s organisations supporting survivors of sexual abuse and harassment. 

The fund just awarded over £1M in grants to 7 women’s organisations in the UK. The biggest donations — around £200,000 ($264,000) — were made to two separate legal support services for women in the UK and a rape crisis service in Northern Ireland. The country has been without rape crisis support services in 12 years due to funding cuts. Read more…

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#MeToo has sparked a big shift in attitudes towards harassment, new research shows

sudshr47 October 2, 2018

#MeToo. Those were the two words that started a revolution.
One year on from the outpouring of profoundly personal stories about sexual harassment and violence, research has found that the movement prompted a major shift in people’s attitude’s toward…

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Alyssa Milano stares daggers at Brett Kavanaugh throughout his hearing

sudshr47 September 27, 2018

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Today’s senate hearing involving Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford has drawn the masses to TV screens across the nation, and has inspired survivors of sexual assault to come forward with their own stories. 

And inside the chamber, actress Alyssa Milano, a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, was present at the hearing, and could be seen sitting behind Kavanaugh as he gave his opening statement. 

Earlier on Thursday, the actress tweeted a photo from the hearing and expressed her support for Ford, who’s accused Kavanaugh — a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court — of sexually assaulting her at a gathering in 1982. Read more…

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Jane Fonda throws the debate around comebacks for #MeToo men into sharp relief

sudshr47 September 22, 2018

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Do guys like Louis C.K. or Charlie Rose deserve a comeback? Does any disgraced sexual predator? What has to happen before such a comeback is even possible?

These questions have been rattling around online for some time, though C.K.’s recent attempted return to stand-up raised the volume. Now, Jane Fonda has some advice for all those disgraced men to consider before they start mulling a comeback.

“Guys are trying to make a comeback and they haven’t done the work,” Fonda said during an event for her upcoming HBO documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts. Read more…

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#DearProfessorFord: Actresses support Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser ahead of hearings

sudshr47 September 20, 2018

Hollywood actresses and women from around the U.S., some being key members of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, have shown their support for Christine Blasey Ford.
Blasey, a professor at California’s Palo Alto University, who recently accused Supr…

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Terry Crews shares apology letter from the agent that allegedly assaulted him

sudshr47 September 15, 2018

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Terry Crews has accepted an apology from Adam Venit.

On Friday, Crews posted the apology letter he received from former William Morris Endeavor agent, the man who Crews said sexually assaulted him at an industry function in 2016. The allegations first surfaced when Crews wrote about it last fall in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s fall and the breakout of the #MeToo movement. 

@WME ‘s ADAM VENIT FULL APOLOGY LETTER:

Received: March 22nd, 2018

Accepted WITH HIS RESIGNATION: September 10th, 2018#Accountability

Read in full below: pic.twitter.com/Hbe4tu7UPL

— terrycrews (@terrycrews) September 14, 2018 Read more…

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The real-life story behind BoJack Horseman’s episode on forgiving abusive men in Hollywood

sudshr47 September 15, 2018

BoJack Horseman is a show that’s so prescient in its satirization of our culture that it often feels like it’s predicting the future.
Think back to the Oscars screw-up of 2017, which basically happened to BoJack a year before in Season 3, when Mr. Pe…

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Lively raises $6.5M to bring its comfortable and inclusive lingerie to brick-and-mortar stores

sudshr47 September 11, 2018

Roy Raymond opened a little store called Victoria’s Secret, now one of the most popular lingerie businesses in the world, because he was embarrassed to buy lingerie for his wife in department stores. The brand was founded on the premise that men needed a safe space to buy lingerie for women and women needed a […]

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Asia Argento reportedly paid off a sexual assault accuser

sudshr47 August 20, 2018

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Asia Argento, an Italian actress and director at the forefront of the #MeToo movement, reportedly paid off a sexual assault accuser.

The New York Times reports Argento paid $380,000 to 22-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett, after he claimed that he was sexually assaulted by her in a California hotel room.

The claim dates back to when Bennett was only two months past his 17th birthday, while Argento was 37. The age of consent in California is 18. 

Both appeared in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, where they played mother and son.  Read more…

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