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Leigh Gilmore

@lgilmore.bsky.social
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Feminist literary critic. Author of Tainted Witness: (Columbia 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell 2023), and The #MeToo Effect (Columbia 2023). leighgilmore.org

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case.
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The Cornell Rape Case and the Patterns That Enable Sexual Violence Leigh Gilmore - Columbia University Press Blog
Leigh Gilmore examines the Cornell rape case and the institutional patterns that enable sexual violence and undermine accountability.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On understanding the Cornell rape case, drinking culture, and rape, the brilliant Beth Marshall writes about how women and girls are held morally accountable for the harm men do to them. fordhampress.com/the-drinking...
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The Drinking Curriculum - Elizabeth Marshall
2024 CHOICE TOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE TITLEA lively exploration into America’s preoccupation with childhood innocence and its corruptionIn The Drinking Curriculum, Elizabeth Marshall brings the taboo topi...
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’s a long history of shifting the blame for rape off men and onto women and “intoxicating drafts.” Anyone and anything but rapists are responsibilized. On raping unconscious or anesthetized women, in particular, read Cressida Heyes. www.dukeupress.edu/anaesthetics...
dukeupress.edu
Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm honored to be giving a keynote at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law on "Learning to Listen: Narrative Activism and Epistemic Injustice."
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NY law about consent and drinking is misogynistic on its face. Drinking alcohol does not make me responsible for someone else’s criminal conduct.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I don’t merely want my son to learn how not to rape someone. I was hoping we could aim a little higher."
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson!
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Honored to have two books on this list.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rapists do not offer victims a choice between consensual sexual intimacy and soul-destroying sexual violence. To pretend that rape is the outcome of equal parties engaged in voluntary decision-making perpetuates the lie that rape is a communication problem that consent education can solve.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Consent is almost nonsensical in the context of sexual violence. What the frat brothers at Cornell did to Jane Doe was sexual torture to which she would have never consented.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sounds like what Cornell U police and DA believe about consent trumps what they believe about rape.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People were trying to write the obituary of #MeToo within a month. The main story was that it would go too far and then that it did. The animosity toward women has always been the real theme.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who is protected and who is blamed at Cornell?Cornell imposes “persona non grata” status on students protesting the university’s links to defense contractors. It blames the students the president drove his car into. And it expels students protesting in support of a free Palestine.
newyorker.com
How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal
The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rape is not sex minus consent. The Cornell rapists drugged and sexually tortured the victim. She was never going to consent to that.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The focus on consent training in the Cornell rape case falsely suggests that rape is a communication problem rather than a violence-power-impunity problem. Wrong problem, wrong solution.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking of the students over the past year who have been doxxed and subjected to disciplinary processes for their political speech. And then there’s these guys.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists stand by survivors and demand transparency. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Congratulations, Caleb!
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Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Watching Zverev play is always a good reminder that the ATP will punish a player more for racket abuse than domestic abuse.
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Huge congrats to Sascha Zverev who now has as many grand slam titles as he does former partners who have publicly accused him of abuse. Every little boy’s dream! #inspirational #goals
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On court behavior from Zverev
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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tennis watchers, reminder: Alexander Zverev has faced domestic abuse allegations from multiple former romantic partners & Ben Shelton's girlfriend is Trinity Rodman who is cool as shit.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If somehow you, reader, don’t know why we all fucking hate Zverev, aside from his totally uninteresting tennis, it’s because he’s a piece of shit.
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Alexander Zverev domestic abuse charges: What to know
As Alexander Zverev plays in the French Open, his domestic abuse trial began on Friday. Here's what to know about the case.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is Mary Carillo the only person likely to bring up Zverev’s history of abuse allegations today?
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets... www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As reporting on Jason Arday continues to expose the racist campaign against him, and is finally offering independent fact checking rather than recycling his antagonist's smears,@chronicle.com publishes a piece that repeatedly defames him. Picking over his bones for clicks is a hideous look.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I talked with @thr.com about autofiction's ethical slipperiness. The novel hallucinates Portman rather than represents her. Cusk's swaps her famed listening technique for hallucinations and projections about Portman. The narrator is gazing in a mirror rather than operating a camera.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Where Harper is sentimental and aggrieved, Baker is laser-focused on racial solidarity within institutional racism.
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very disturbing. This detail says it all about the complaint process: "'Ghostwriting was a consistent & a concerning theme throughout this matter,' the tribunal concluded. 'In one example the person being complained about drafted the response to the claimant rejecting his complaints against them.'"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Random wife-beaters get to hand out death sentences on the streets now
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Kwame Anthony Appiah Hasn’t Done the Reading.” But Gabriel Hankins sure has. Thank you for writing this.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“We affirm that every trans person is a precious child of God, and a beloved part of the life of this Church.”
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
That headline.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“This kind of punditry — and surely Scott Jennings knows better —perpetuates a lie about rape laws,” Gilmore explained. “‘Uncorroborated’ is a sexist dog whistle.”
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'Scott Jennings Knows Better': His Latest Comments Completely Dismiss Sexual Assault Survivors
"My view is this, if there is serious allegations or if there's serious evidence or corroboration everyone needs to take responsibility," Jennings said.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Wtf
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/07/2026
Please remember: IN THE UNITED STATES, A SURVIVOR OR VICTIM OF A CRIME CANNOT "PRESS CHARGES." That's a myth from the movies and television. Whether or not criminal charges are filed is SOLELY the decision of the prosecutor and/or law enforcement personnel assigned to the case.
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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
at your table, the server asks if anyone in your party has a "hillbilly allergy"
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Really important to use the right word given the different legal definitions of sexual assault state by state: Jenny Racicot is accusing Platner of rape.
politico.com
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A lot of the pro-Platner bots unleashing tired victim-blaming cliches seem to have been trained on Platner’s old Reddit posts. Classy and consistent.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Countdown until T***p says Platner has been treated very unfairly.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I appreciate her decision to say this.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are lots of good candidates in Maine and one of them should be on the ballot. I can’t tell you how to get people to give up their fascination with dirtbag guys.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Re-upping this to cheer E. Jean Carroll's legal victory --again -- against Trump. He's out of courts to appeal to. It's time to pay E Jean what she's due. @cogwbur.bsky.social
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How E. Jean Carroll and an $83 million verdict finally got Trump to go quiet
E. Jean Carroll, one of more than two dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual assault, succeeded in holding the former president accountable for both abuse and defamation, writes Leigh Gilmore.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/06/2026
Ohio State University has reached a $100 million settlement with nearly 300 former students who had accused the school’s campus doctor of sexually assaulting them decades ago, the school and a lawyer for the victims said. cnn.it/4vsOX4G
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Ohio State reaches $100 million settlement with nearly 300 sex abuse survivors | CNN
Ohio State University has reached a $100 million settlement with nearly 300 former students who had accused the school's campus doctor of sexually assaulting them decades ago, the school and a lawyer for the victims said on Wednesday.
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“The calls have been going on for at least three years, according to Charlotte Buttercase, a final-year medical student and one of those targeted.”
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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wrote about Thomas's jurisprudence of cruelty in my book Tainted Witness. He has been making this case against the 8th Amendment for a long time. Oh, and Anita Hill warned us.
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sandeen @sandeen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This reporter has found NINE rioters who molested children. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...
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