Reposted by persephoneEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3hIn part, because you shouldn't have sex with anyone who doesn't want to! Whether or not it's legally admissable as rape, it's a shitty thing to do. In part, because it's risky—morally, legally, emotionally—to have sex with a person who can't or won't communicate or make a choice 11377
Reposted by persephoneEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3hIn the early 90s, a male friend of mine complained that women sometimes gave mixed messages, wavering between yes & no. I said sure that was true & if it happened, he should look at her & say, "Wait, I'm asking straightforwardly: do you want to do this?" And if she wouldn't answer, he should LEAVE 922728
Reposted by persephoneNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 4hThis new generation of campus sexual violence activists understand solidarity and community care. My inbox is full of emails from young survivors checking in on *me* in light of the Cornell story. And I know they’re checking in on each other too. They’re in it for the long haul. 410622
Reposted by persephoneAdina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 4hSeems extremely bad, actually. As an early modernist by training, I can stay with confidence that I really don’t want random people on the internet talking about Simon of Trent. That’s never been good for the Jews and never will be. 3243
Reposted by persephoneJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 9hI don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry 421150
Reposted by persephonemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 5hdon’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks 331500377
Reposted by persephoneNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19hMen, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that? 7503133
Reposted by persephoneali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83779718
Reposted by persephoneAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8hA welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow. 431168
Reposted by persephoneBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 19hI wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh 511857320
Reposted by persephoneIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 19hthe best evidence that mamdani is not a leftist antisemite is what actual leftist antisemites say about him 49033
Reposted by persephoneBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22hthe whole point of exercising "equitable powers" on the shadow docket is to quickly address imminent, irreparable harm it is infuriating and disgusting for the GOP justices to deploy that to block the harm of, what, insufficiently slow ethnic cleansing? 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. 523073
Reposted by persephoneAndi 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 5326113
Reposted by persephoneLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 29/09/2026on top of the emails showing Epstein directly supporting individual predatory professors, a professor who planned a "campus rape and consent" conference with the intention of undermining mid-2010s attempts at progress around Title IX requested funding for it from Epsteinchron.comFormer UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein FoundationHe sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event. 19135
Reposted by persephoneErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23hRiley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comRiley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding ClaimsGaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete. 1454923948
Reposted by persephoneBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/20261 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win. 191527172
Reposted by persephoneAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15482157
Reposted by persephoneHannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal 318078
Reposted by persephoneDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms 9894253
Reposted by persephoneMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?! 422844550
Reposted by persephoneAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇 1420138
Reposted by persephoneRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember that repentance, atonement + attaining forgiveness are not the same thing. Focus on the first. 1) Own the harm, fully + completely 2) Begin to work to change for real, addressing root causes via therapy + education 3) AMENDS in convo w/SA experts* cot'd + *DON'T APPROACH VICTIM UNPROMPTED 1638
Reposted by persephoneCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing. 219759
Reposted by persephoneSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025. 19916229
Reposted by persephonePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison. 441256443
Reposted by persephoneAsh Flanagan @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A LOT OF STAY AT HOME PARENTS ARE ONLY DOING IT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FIND A JOB THAT PAYS MORE THAN THE COST OF DAYCARE 02111
Reposted by persephoneryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents 362445521
Reposted by persephoneOmri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a great example to show that we don't really need the government to subsidize clean energy through tax credits and alike, for people to make the transition to clean cars. We just need to stop subsidizing the oil and gas industry. 1266
Reposted by persephoneGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5550322
Reposted by persephoneHannah 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 11129383577
Reposted by persephonecait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women 92515534
Reposted by persephoneShayna Weiss @shaynamalka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you work in higher ed, especially if you are a woman, you are constantly faced with the aftermath of sexual assault, and the bravery of survivors--of all genders. Just thinking of all of you today and I wish it was better. 041
Reposted by persephoneLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12478241949
Reposted by persephoneSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074482427
Reposted by persephoneGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...news.wttw.comFirm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out DeportationsMore than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00... 6810251
Reposted by persephoneEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT. 211044304
persephone @pphone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026tbh i flinched a little RTing this. i fear it risks being read as "these are both threats but one's a lot more prevalent than the other." no. 100% no. trans athletes are not threats! the point hopefully being made is that people SAYING trans athletes are threats don't actually care about threats. 261
Reposted by persephoneKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support. 443066690
Reposted by persephoneDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22425891060
Reposted by persephoneKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... 5644160
Reposted by persephoneNicole 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. 31824626
Reposted by persephoneDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895407928
Reposted by persephoneAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering." 9470731890
Reposted by persephoneUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142464853
Reposted by persephoneAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The Indian Question" now joins "The Jewish Question" as a shorthand for a dream of ethnic cleansing. As with the mass purge of Haitians, Christopher Rufo again seeks to play a central role in this descent into ethnonationalist fascism. 30530151
Reposted by persephoneEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026States can and have banned 287 agreements within their borders. There’s a template for this, and any state that hasn’t done so is choosing not to do so. 218971
