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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

thecut.com

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you want to understand why schools didn’t revolutionize their sexual violence response to fix things, college presidents unilaterally deciding that it wasn’t worth the effort is a huge part of the story.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USA Today’s online ethics policy explicitly allows for entirely AI-generated content, as long as a reporter reads it. I don’t trust that any of the reporters who used my interview this way have ever written a single word.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But you're right. In the acquisition mega-corporation era, this kind of policy means that an expert's interview could show up anywhere.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm the token expert voice saying that inconsistencies in victim's narratives are common in an otherwise brutally bad piece of journalism full of tropes about how not to report on sexual assault.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the article I most vividly remember. A sympathetic portrait of mothers defending their sons who were “not falsely accused” but “wrongly accused.” They were fighting for impunity for rapists. It ran the week #MeToo went viral.

nytimes.com

‘Willing to Do Everything,’ Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault (Published 2017)

Some of the mothers met with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos before she changed the rules on how colleges should handle accusations.

@jessicawluther.com@jessicawluther.com

🧵 This is what I remember about that time period. This NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/u.... I remember it viscerally because if you CTRL+F for "Mock," you'll find a sympathetic, short bit on what happened to C.D. Mock's son.

nytimes.com

Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear (Published 2017)

Betsy DeVos’s Education Department is re-evaluating the get-tough policies on campus sexual assault that were enforced by the Obama administration.

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nbedera.bsky.social @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 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.

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