SPA @perilresearch.bsky.social's Cynthia @milleridriss.bsky.social talks to @cnn.com about the severely lacking gender-based violence reporting policies at Cornell and Greek life in general, which have failed victims and survivors for decades and still do today. Watch: cnn.it/3VDGrDe
This 🔥
There’s also a link here to comments by @milleridriss.bsky.social, a Cornell alumna and gender-based violence expert
Really worth a view. No, nothing has changed, not only @cornelluniversity.bsky.social but everywhere. Misogyny, sexual assault and abuse are directly tied to larger violent forces. And we consistently ignore it.
I am so glad to hear that- thanks Kim- I really was so honored to be there and glad I could speak to the issues.
the first of my two CNN segments from today:
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
I’m so sorry.
I went! Just got back today. Very emotional to be there.
of deep-stitches-needing wounds. But paper cuts hurt too. /end
as i think about the many terrible downstream effects of the lack of accountability & justice for victims of campus SA. Lower GPAs, leaves of absence, transfers, fewer relationships with professors over four years who could write letters of recommendation. Maybe it’s the last paper cut in a world 4/
campus sexual assault & its impact on survivors’ wellbeing, learning, mental health, & academic performance, it’s hard not to draw the conclusion that a pattern I noticed on women’s undergrad transcripts but not on men’s was in some cases due to SA trauma. That keeps bouncing around my head 3/
that made their grades tank after they had already had strong performance for a year or two. You could literally see the crisis they experienced in their academic performance for a semester or a year. It could have been a lot of things, of course. But given what we know about the prevalence of 2/
I have reviewed thousands of grad school applications over my career & always advocated against looking at overall undergrad GPA & instead at the trajectory in the last two years. That’s because I saw a pattern on so many women’s transcripts as they experienced something in their first year 1/
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