Feeding Stars to Cats

atrapforfools:

[TRIGGER WARNING for rape and mentions of war]

[Image Description: Image is the promotional poster for the documentary “The Invisible War”. It features a close-up photo of a female soldier with the tagline: “The battleground is your barracks.” 

 An investigative and powerfully emotional examination of the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military, the institutions that cover up its existence and the profound personal and social consequences that arise from it.

Link to the trailer (contains graphic descriptions of rape)

I first saw about this on ONTD and it has really stuck to me. Certain facts that I can’t ever forget from that post: female soldiers who were raped by a married man were then charged with adultery; 30% of servicewomen are sexually assaulted during their enlistment and that they are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan than killed by the enemy.

(via sunday4rose)