Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Source: have had this conversation many, many times on both sides. And spent the better part of a decade haranguing Cornell about Title IX. (People, can we please drag up how President Kotlikoff did a seemingly intentional hit-and-run on a STUDENT this year, lied about it, and the DA did nothing?) 001
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Adding two more for remedial level: -if you want to hug them or something, offer it. But don’t initiate physical contact without permission. -if you know the perpetrator, don’t forget this info, don’t downplay what he did, and do ask how the survivor would like you to handle things socially. 110
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And while I’ve had some crap luck, on the whole I’ve been very lucky and have a very good life. For some folks it will be their worst experience! But maybe fewer than you’d think. 020
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I realize that‘s a concern, but it’s also one that reinforces the idea that it *must* have been intensely traumatic. Which can play into “am I a bad victim/not a real victim?” etc. And honestly while it’s one of two experiences that gave me PTSD, it is way down my list of worst things to happen. 120
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like, if you’re telling me he deserves death, or that you wish I’d had a gun to shoot him with, the implication is that what happened to me must be worse than death. Not a helpful sentiment, plus I vehemently disagree. 010
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, this is better phrasing! Do not be sad about it at them! 020
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Especially if the perp is someone you know, you’re likely to feel very upset about the world. Talk about it! With someone *else*, anonymizing the situation. And I cannot count how many dudes offered fantasies of violence that were exhausting to redirect. Eventually I considered punching *them*. 360
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And I’m being pretty deliberate about “them” rather than “her” because trans and nonbinary folks are disproportionately targeted by sexual violence, and because people are shockingly dismissive of cis male survivors in a whole different way. 161
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To give a bit more background on some of these, theres an excellent comic on The Nib called “Trigger Warning: Breakfast” about the author’s own reaction to eggs, post-assault. My own strongest trigger was, I kid you not, popcorn ceilings. Which is genuinely kinda funny. 1101
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026-don’t ask “why didn’t you…” [fight back, tell police, etc etc]. There’s no good way to not sound like you’re blaming them. -do let them know you won’t tell others without their permission. I realize some of these seem obvious but here we are. 160
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026-it’s idiosyncratic -ask them. Including about any known triggers, which can be very random. -don’t make it about your feelings. Not how sad you are that that’s happened to them, not how you want to/are gonna beat up their assailant, just no. They don’t need to help you navigate that. 2100
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Especially given the topic, how vile! I’m sorry this has happened to you. 060
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I hope the survivors who came forward years or decades ago know that they are the reason the Cornell case is resonating the way it is. Every single one of you helped pave a path for people to understand the harms of rape and institutional betrayal. Thank you. I know it’s hard. But thank you. 229753
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us 7832175
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know he’s gone so far as to go after folks in InfoSci/LLM stuff that touches on medieval literature. Not Renaissance. Medieval. 020
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, the DA who did nothing when Cornell’s president earlier this year did a hit-and-run on student protesters? 0201
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a Cornell alum and a rape survivor, today seems a good time to repost this from that fight during Trump1. You are not alone. We are not alone. I will listen. medium.com/@annawaymack...medium.comPhilomela on CampusContent Warnings: pretty much all of them. Sexual assault, murder, mental illness, self-harm, other violence. 1182
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can vouch it was a required part of gym in high school in Illinois, ~’05. I think it’s still going. 060
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026No—Card’s fantasy stand-alone Enchantment. The “right” woman can bond with protagonist’s mother sans common language because they’re both at home in the kitchen. The “wrong” fiancée went to college and found women’s studies and wants a career. Also Baba Yaga something abortions. 020
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Keys! My grandfather left notes in the relevant document, updated and shared annually, on which keys hung where. Also on his current subscriptions. Both of those were very handy. 042
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Anyhow I learned not to say “y’all“ in public because people gave me such weird looks when I did. 020
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Twins! In my case, vowels in particular have always sounded RP—since I was a toddler. We don’t know why. But Virginian parents mean my cadence and word choice are a very poor match for my accent…and the whole of it combined did not serve me well as a kid in Chicago. 160
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026PSA: courtesy of President Trump, new Great Lakes mnemonic has dropped. Effective immediately we will be replacing HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) with SHAME. 011
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The only thing I really want to add to the plentiful discourse around this weird behavior is that no one’s “child” goes to college. College students are legal adults more than capable of choosing to take some fun, critical, interesting courses without guys online being paternalistic about it. 30903118
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Oh no! There are people who want to just make watchbands and I am not one of them! 120
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026they're not my specialty but easy enough, especially if you‘re okay with unlined 010
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Like I get why my great-grandma made them. But why *keep* making them after the Depression?? 130
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026What about potato candy? (Have tried it, after recreating my great-grandma’s recipe for my dad and uncle. Do not recommend.) 130
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026But it is always a good time to introduce someone *else* to Malört 110
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Dolma Boston also has it, if you want a scoop instead of a pint! 020
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors 292203352
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026But omg different wiring does not make it “not a social construct” It’s social construct turtles all the way down 010
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Strongly do not recommend switching the hardware you’ve used all your life partway thru grad school. But wow it really is different hardware, and my once-familiar old programs became glitchy af if they even ran at all. 110
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Also, as someone who was neurotypical until a bonk on the head at 23, and now has to take a Ritalin daily for what is functionally ADHD, I’mma go out on a limb and say that there *is* some different wiring going on. 100
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This documentary is gonna make me scream in lit theorist, isn’t it 120
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It occurs to me that medievalists probably have an unfair advantage on Wheel of Fortune 120
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.sociallosingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.comWe have an even bigger problem than Graham PlatnerThe candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media 11749481166
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Regardless, seems like my relief was different from yours. Apologies for assuming. 100
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026After #MeToo and doing Title IX activism, if something comes out along those lines I think it’s reasonable to expect more and worse is coming. It’s so rarely just one victim and it’s easier for those with lower stakes to speak up first. Not a certainty! But something I now automatically brace for. 100
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Which is to say the tattoo should already have been a nonstarter without him having proactively removed it, owned up to it, and worked on a substantial track record of doing better. 010
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Ballpark 200 million American citizens over age 30. I feel like it’s not too big an ask, for a role that is literally rarer than one in a million, that senatorial candidates be decent human beings. Also, not hilariously vulnerable to blackmail. 120
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Learning, or getting *confirmation* he’s a rapist? Feels like a lot of us were waiting on this shoe to drop since the harassment/physical force stuff came out. And now it has with time to still replace him. For me it’s absolutely a relief. 100
Reposted by Anna Fore WaymackDr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It’s his day: 427867
Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026pear, and storing it in a tote bag with hard-edged items was a really questionable choice as it turns out 100