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	<description>The blog of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault.</description>
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		<title>We can stop the epidemic. Why haven’t we?</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/news/we-can-stop-the-epidemic-why-haven%e2%80%99t-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This epidemic is hidden, literally behind bars.  Just Detention International (JDI) called rape and sexual abuse in detention an epidemic after the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released results of the 2008-09 nationwide survey of inmates in federal and state prisons as well as county jails. Statistic after statistic shows us a glimpse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chicken or the Egg</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/the-chicken-or-the-egg/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/the-chicken-or-the-egg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Love</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had this thought rolling around in my head (kind of like a song you just can’t stop singing to yourself) ever since our prevention institute. I’ve been wondering what comes first in primary prevention – is it the chicken or the egg. Do people change their behavior only after they change their attitudes, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing things we don&#8217;t want to hear&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/hearing-things-we-dont-want-to-hear/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/hearing-things-we-dont-want-to-hear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan J Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of both prevention and outreach work involves starting conversations with folks about the issues that are relevant to sexual violence. Oftentimes, we are tempted to water down our message, equivocate, employ euphemisms, anything not to turn someone off before we have a chance to explain our side, to bring them over to our cause. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checked out your SHAC lately?</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/checked-out-your-shac-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/checked-out-your-shac-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of school in many districts, and I’m so excited! I’m going to be part of our local Student Health Advisory Council (SHAC). If I were you I’d be thinking, “Poor thing, her life must be mighty dull.” But I hope before I’m through you’ll decide to check out the SHAC in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention and Positive Parenting</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/prevention-and-positive-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/prevention-and-positive-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Love</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary prevention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, we held our annual primary prevention institute &#8211; Sustaining Change. As part of my opening statements, I chose to talk about the definitions of “sustain” and “change.” One of the definitions of “sustain” &#8211; “to support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage” really struck a chord with me. It reminded me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What could possibly make you think that&#8217;s ok?</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/guest-post/what-could-possibly-make-you-think-thats-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/guest-post/what-could-possibly-make-you-think-thats-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Heald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taasa.org/blog/?p=1874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My plans for the evening fell through last night, so I decided to grab a late dinner at a Mexican restaurant just down the street from my apartment. As I strolled past the well-lit Target on my way to the restaurant, I passed two men sitting on a bench in front of the store. “Hello [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arizona’s Passage of SB1070: Implications on victim advocacy</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/news/arizona%e2%80%99s-passage-of-sb1070-implications-on-victim-advocacy/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/news/arizona%e2%80%99s-passage-of-sb1070-implications-on-victim-advocacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Luna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Texas advocates examined the repercussions of Arizona&#8217;s SB 1070 on victim advocacy at TAASA’s (Texas Association Against Sexual Assault) Diversity Task Force meeting in May.  Isaac Harrington, VAWA attorney with Texas Civil Rights Project, and Laura Zárate, co-founder and executive director of Arte Sana, discussed the implications of this law on victims based on their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob Marley, where are you?</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/bob-marley-where-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/bob-marley-where-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wende Hilsenrod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taasa.org/blog/?p=1861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free   our mind.”                                                                                                               “from Redemption Song” One of my friends has a theory that a person’s view of the world is “tinted” by the colors of their eyes. And I think “What, they don’t see the same things I do?” My children roll their eyes and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Her name was Lurline.</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/her-name-was-lurline/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/uncategorized/her-name-was-lurline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elder Abuse Prevention Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual assault]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taasa.org/blog/?p=1855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture a short, slightly rotund 82-year-old lady who kept her short hair somewhat haphazardly dyed various shades of red, auburn, orange. She lived in Houston most of her life and was definitely the “city aunt” when she visited family in our small town. Then she moved back home to live in the senior citizens’ apartments. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Penalty Shouldn’t Include Sexual Violence!</title>
		<link>http://taasa.org/blog/news/the-penalty-shouldn%e2%80%99t-include-sexual-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://taasa.org/blog/news/the-penalty-shouldn%e2%80%99t-include-sexual-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Torie Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://taasa.org/blog/?p=1850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, more than 100,000 men, women and children are victimized while behind bars, usually by corrections officials whose very job it is to keep them safe. The U.S. Attorney General is currently reviewing national standards aimed at preventing and addressing this type of abuse. On Monday, TAASA, along with thirty rape crisis centers, submitted [...]]]></description>
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