Reposted by Megan GoodwinSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 151169426
Reposted by Megan GoodwinDr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 3hYou teach? I teach Computer age philosophy But my students would rather ChatGPT America huh America 091
Reposted by Megan GoodwinBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3hI would give anything to be able to vomit bees 1418320
Reposted by Megan GoodwinAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 362134800
Reposted by Megan GoodwinThe Onion @theonion.com · 11hCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 12483691575
Reposted by Megan GoodwinCJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 11hEveryone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions. 6472106
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 10hfuck you, Wix your tablet interface editing (non)ability is trash but I have bested youstatic.klipy.comRon Swanson's Computer TossAlt: Ron Swanson's Computer Toss 060
Reposted by Megan GoodwinLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 14hwell that’s fun pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govAssociation between perimenopausal age and greater posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms in trauma-exposed womenPosttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms in trauma-exposed women are impacted by reproductive age, such that perimenopausal women show higher symptom severity than premenopausal and postm... 3234
Reposted by Megan GoodwinThe Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 15hA special resource for everyone in your networks - gift links for the New York Times, every week from Digimentors. www.digimentors.group/post/ep-411-... 043
Reposted by Megan GoodwinHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10114983185
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15hlol you can tell a religious faction is not in danger of being oppressed or eliminated when they're like "no go ahead and count us" "sure you can put me on a list" 070
Reposted by Megan GoodwinCharlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible. 381750321
Reposted by Megan GoodwinAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 23hYes. False accusations are not unheard of. But they are rare. Would definitely recommend the Marshall Project’s reporting on this subject. www.themarshallproject.org/records/1466...themarshallproject.orgFalse Rape Allegations | The RecordThe best criminal justice reporting tagged with "False Rape Allegations," curated by The Marshall Project. 2336
Reposted by Megan GoodwinHieronymous Borscht @secretlentil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The editor-in-chief was on NPR today and was stunningly impressive. www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...npr.org'Cornell Daily Sun' reporting brought light to alleged campus assaultSophia Dasser, editor-in-chief at The Cornell Daily Sun, talks with NPR's Juana Summers about an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell and the campus fallout. 04411
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026honestly this is one of the (vanishingly few) things I find deeply charming about America people all over this dang country will say a place name any way they damn well please and you're the idiot for not intuiting that ass backwards pronunciation immediately upon arrival 3220
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I hate the framework but: this is a pro-life agenda this is what protecting women (and all people with cervixes) looks like 1111
Reposted by Megan GoodwinBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline 15969281
Reposted by Megan GoodwinMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 343639755
Reposted by Megan GoodwinErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also all of your favorite posters on here are liberal arts dweebs so get over it. 21036
Reposted by Megan GoodwinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026RSVP to attend. This is going to be a rare opportunity to learn from both @amylittlefield.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social. And to be in community with like-minded folks. 04934
Reposted by Megan Goodwinkate @thekatriarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When a united states senator goes to work, I don't want them being impressed by their own importance I want them to feel like crying every single day like the rest of us 1231
Reposted by Megan Goodwinkate @thekatriarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Knock down the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings too while we're at it, the federal government doesn't get to work in fancy buildings that make them feel special and important anymore, they need humility 2241
Reposted by Megan GoodwinAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly 5322112
Reposted by Megan GoodwinJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime. 131292186
Reposted by Megan GoodwinUnassuming Local Guy @bionicslingshot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026MY FORTUNE COOKIE: “You will soon experience a great transformation.” MY BRAIN: 833033
Reposted by Megan GoodwinI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Also colorblind individualism as a goal in a society profoundly shaped by racism is a bad goal also meant to prevent efforts to remediate said racism. 214933
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.) 2307105
Reposted by Megan GoodwinLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car? 141306246
Reposted by Megan GoodwinPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for 3140881128
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It would be a huge help if anyone affiliated with a university would put in a request for the library to purchase a copy if they don’t have one already. If your request is denied, we’ve found that asking your colleagues to put in additional requests works a lot of the time. 35515
Reposted by Megan GoodwinFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse. 241522205
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For 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.bookshop.orgOn the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop... 1376130
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2025, Trump was inaugurated into his second term and immediately ordered the Department of Education to stop investigating complaints about sexual violence or other violations of women’s Title IX rights. 125761
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.time.comA New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against ThemA mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline... 3351110
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 21410490
Reposted by Megan GoodwinBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026KBJ keeps tryna tell us about the deeply perverse way the Court is exercising its equitable powers on the shadow docket the GOP justices wielding equitable jurisdiction are (surprise surprise) actively hostile to the concept of equity, & produce injustice instead ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously. 316744
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s earlier than I expected to announce this, but we’re in the process of founding an organization to build cross-generational solidarity on campus sexual violence. It’s called the Survivor Alumni Network. And if you want updates from us when we are ready to go public, you can stay in touch here:survivoralumninetwork.orgSurvivor Alumni NetworkJoin a national survivor network. Access free Title IX resources, peer mentorship, and Campus Response Teams dedicated to campus safety reform. 314148
Reposted by Megan GoodwinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts from older women about how they won’t talk or think about Cornell because it’s too painful or the problem is too big to solve. I’m urging you all to remember how you felt as a college student when older women said that to you. Don’t turn your back on the next generation. 530069
Reposted by Megan GoodwinGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before. 22672443
Reposted by Megan GoodwinWasWrecked&NowImFound @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Linda McMahon, current Secretary of Education, has a long history of covering up sexual abuse too 2479
Reposted by Megan GoodwinFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 28/09/2026SOURCE REQUEST: looking to talk to Native or Indigenous fans of the WNBA about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. DM here or email frankie at britnidlc dot com 05046
Reposted by Megan GoodwinMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should let people dream of something besides labor 9609128
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026lol I learned about this tradition at @profirmf.bsky.social's eldest's b mitzvah very abruptly and firsthand (er, face) 😂 mazel, everybody 150