Originally aired on September 13, 2012.
Rebecca Marchiafava is a Community Educator at the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center. Marchiafava talks about gender-based violence, victim blaming, and responses to her blog post about Mickey Shunick who was murdered while bicycling alone at night. She criticizes the belief that women shouldn't "tempt fate" when they travel. Interviewed by Sharon Tohline.
Her blog post can be read at http://digbatonrouge.com/article/we-will-not-surrender-our-freedom-to-travel-5778/
Longer version: http://brstarcenter.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/we-will-not-surrender-our-freedom-to-travel-gender-based-terror-and-tempting-fate/
STAR blog: https://brstarcenter.wordpress.com/
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