Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom)
@lesbrains.bsky.social
Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
This book is amazing (as is all of Myriam’s work) and you all should read it if you haven’t already!
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom)@lesbrains.bsky.social · 5h agoIt’s banned book week and I hope that you support authors of banned books. Creep: Accusations and Confessions was the target of a book ban in Santa Paula, California. I was banned from Long Beach Unified School District property for speaking out against corruption.
It’s banned book week and I hope that you support authors of banned books. Creep: Accusations and Confessions was the target of a book ban in Santa Paula, California. I was banned from Long Beach Unified School District property for speaking out against corruption.
The most common outcome of a report to Title IX is that nothing happens. That’s by design. According to school policies (and now, Trump’s 2020 federal regulation), a report is just a way for schools to receive information about violence. It does not require any action from the school.
As a survivor of sexual violence, this shit is triggering as fuck. As a professor who has witnessed, reported and watched how the university protects predators, I’m just done. But when you have a predator in chief, what can you expect. Fuck all this. Honestly. Too much.
My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.
Again, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all!
Holly ⏸️ Elmore@ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 2d agoMy ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 5d agoIn case anyone else needs it, the magic phrase for shutting down men picking apart a sexual violence case by blaming victims is: “The only people who would say something like that are rape apologists, rapists, or both.” You don’t have to argue with them on merit when their claims have no merit.
Yes, but frats are still the very best place to start. Frats are where boys become men. And specifically, some of the most powerful men in our society. They are arguably a lot more influential than most of the other men’s orgs in this list. Banning frats will open the door to banning the others.
Snitty 🎃@clofsnitville.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is a really good thread that gets at something I alluded to yesterday but didn't flesh out as Bedera does here: that you can ban fraternities, but if you don't take on rape culture, sports, clubs, informal social networks will do many of the same things as frats.
A core part of the problem is that parents want their sons to be able to access male privilege more than they want to stop sexual violence. You have to let go of the fraternities. And the men’s only athletic teams. And any other boys clubs.
The police are the most powerful pro-rape lobby in the US. Of course they’re dangerous to survivors.
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d agoJust a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
They always say the problem is “training” so they can ask for more money to do what they’re already doing
Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 4d agowhenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy
Just as we've seen in the discourse this week, institutional betrayals of survivors by universities are usually met with thousands of people saying, "Why didn't she just go to the police?" And this is (part of) the answer. The police betray survivors just as consistently as universities do.
One of the reasons that researchers suspect police react to sexual assault disclosures that way is because the rate of sexual violence perpetration among police is much higher than the general population.
The primary problem is the culture of policing itself. Police hugely overestimate the number of false allegations. They don't listen to survivors' statements as much as they try to poke holes in them. I watched this firsthand for years as a hospital victim advocate. It's gutting to witness.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: US police actively prevent consequences for rapists by hitting victims with a wall of demoralizing hostility and skepticism, and then using their institutional credibility to undermine victim testimony and sabotage evidence and process steps.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 4d agoSurvivors often report to their schools because they need an intervention and do not want police involved. And they have good reason to distrust them. The criminal justice system is another common source of institutional betrayal.
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d agoJust a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
The people saying this don’t want to acknowledge that this country is a frat house. And we all live in it.
Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4d agoIf the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
With his finger on the pulse of the US zeitgeist, Presidential Wannabe Gavin Newsom wades into the fight against rape on the side of ....the rapists. I cannot explain to you how hard I will NOT VOTE for this man. If you put him on the ballot, you will lose
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5d agoGov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday sought to rein in a wave of legal claims that have pushed some local governments and school districts in California to the brink of bankruptcy, after earlier laws made it much easier to sue over child sexual abuse.
Yes, I took a screenshot because I was proud of my reply. Joyce ignored it.
David Avallone@davallone.bsky.social · 5d agoI’ve been down on her since she was defending Woody Allen’s pedophilia AND misunderstanding Nabokov in the same tweet.
Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.
Tara O’Connor@taraocomics.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!
I want to believe that reading is the ability to pleasure oneself through words; “AI” can’t do that.
Ah, I see we're back to the "Democrats are actually lying about what they believe in order to win elections and as soon as they gain power they'll act and vote more progressively" delusion. That's an oldie but a goodie. We've never seen any evidence to the contrary, I tell you what.
The only people that schools fight harder to protect than students who rape are the teachers and administrators who do the same…
" Many feminists now charge Freud with protecting child sexual abuse perpetrators... Intellectuals like him are responsible for what I call the pedophilicene, an era dominated by adults, primarily men, whose selfhood is defined by their ability to devour children." myriam gurba is always v jarring
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d agoTODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social on Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s new book SECRET DAUGHTER. "Exile doesn’t erase [secrets]; it merely displaces them. Silencing a secret is much harder and obliterating the evidence of it is harder still. In fact, it might be impossible." flaminghydra.com/r/706a8598?m...
Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
Data Driven
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life
press.princeton.edu
Ozma@rowyourbot.bsky.social · 5d agoThere is already much AI surveillance of workers. Somebody needs to write about THAT. We need so many more unions, and strikes it's not even funny.
"The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death."
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5d agoBREAKING: The execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee's first of a woman in 200 years, was halted by a court an hour before it was set to take place.
