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Jen Percy

@jenpercy.bsky.social
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Writer at NYTM and author of GIRLS PLAY DEAD: ACTS OF SELF PRESERVATION (Nov 2025)

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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Girls Play Dead is a Joyful Heart Foundation virtual book club pick! Join me tomorrow March 11, 2026 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT in conversation with the great Debbie Millman 🤩 Register in link: www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/book-club/gi...
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Join me next week 2/17 for a discussion with the extraordinary @dayoneny.bsky.social about my book Girls Play Dead and how to change the narrative on gendered violence and survivorship. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Day One Dialogue with Jen Percy and Anne Patterson . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Drawing from Jen Percy’s book, Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation, and Day One’s work with young people and young survivors of gender-based violence, we invite you into a thoughtful conversati...
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Tomorrow! TUESDAY 1/20! Join me for a @Clayman_Inst discussion of my new book, GIRLS PLAY DEAD: Acts of Self-Preservation, on women's stigmatized responses to sexual violence. Online and free at 3PM Eastern/Noon Pacific. gender.stanford.edu/events/femin...
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Feminism in Theory and Practice featuring Jen Percy | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Drawing on original reporting, years of conversations with survivors, and her own life story, Percy explores the surprising ways in which responses to sexual violence are shaped by both evolutionary i...
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Pete's Reading Series @petesreading.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One week from tonight, join us on Thursday, January 15th 7:30pm as we welcome Jaquira Diaz, @deenaelg.bsky.social , Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and @jenpercy.bsky.social to the Pete's stage! 🔥 With your hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social and books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/01/2026
Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan
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Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan
Elon Musk’s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Join me tomorrow 11/10 @booksaremagic for the launch of my second book GIRLS PLAY DEAD:ACTS OF SELF PRESERVATION. I’ll be in conversation with Leslie Jamison. girlsplaydead.eventbrite.com
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In-Store: Jen Percy: Girls Play Dead w/ Leslie Jamison
Eventbrite - Books Are Magic presents In-Store: Jen Percy: Girls Play Dead w/ Leslie Jamison - Monday, November 10, 2025 at Books Are Magic Montague, Brooklyn, NY. Find event and ticket information.
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“Once you see the videos, there’s nothing about it that is arousing. It’s not a rock movie of a hot woman on a beautiful bed. It’s a naked woman that could be your grandmother. You don’t know her, she’s in a coma; how does this turn you on?” apple.news/ArvmDalzgQ7e...
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‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists — Guardian US
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The National Press Club joins a long and sad list of Australian cultural institutions that have surrendered to political pressure (implied or real) and attempted to cancel or censor critics of Israel. nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
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Doubleday Books @doubledaybooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We're STARRY-eyed over @publisherswkly.bsky.social's review for GIRLS PLAY DEAD by @jenpercy.bsky.social: “A groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault... Extensive, empathetic.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780385550048
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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation by Jen Percy
Percy (Demon Camp), a New York Times Magazine contributing writer, offers a groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed a...
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Incredible to see my new book GIRLS PLAY DEAD: ACTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION on @nytimes.com list of top nonfiction books to read this fall. Out 11/11! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
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21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I would be delighted to live in a world where the work of victims of sexual assault who are not billionaires got this kind of media coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...
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The Billionaire, the Psychedelics and the Best-Selling Memoir
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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My big story about Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary
As he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him?
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This story names something that had been really bothering me: public opinion, shaped by irrefutable, horrific, daily reporting by people in Gaza, turned against Israeli government years ago. Polls have shown this consistently. Why do Dems ignore their voters on this? nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?
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Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A must read on Israeli war crimes by Suzy Hansen @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel’s Crimes of the Century
How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.
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