I hate to even amplify this but will just say anyone who sexualizes a young rape victim in this way is a deeply sick fucking pervert and these are the same vile pro-rape perverts who are claiming they care about "women/girls'" safety to attack trans people

there honestly wasn't a single coffee shop with functional wifi in all of america this week i think. because my experience is universal and the one single truth and that's what happened to me this week

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

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The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock

“While global public opinion has shifted, we still have not seen this translate into a shift in policy. Bombs are still being sent to Israel; trade is still flowing with Israel (despite proclamations that they will stop).”

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

Who is this working on anymore like "im a 50 year old alcoholic and im mean 😈😈" ok??????

and what I find so uniquely alarming about the present and the future:

I also think it's important to challenge any framing that campus sexual violence is a "middle class" "elitist" issue or what not, which is not only deeply offensive but just incorrect on a number of different levels:

Re: certain lawmakers floating that the solution is to require campus rape allegations to be "automatically be referred to the police":

I wrote about the campus sexual assault crisis that never went away despite the public moving on after the Obama era; the material ways SA punishes victims the rest of their lives while assailants are systematically rewarded; and just tried to put to words what I think is going unsaid right now:

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.