Sociologist Nicole Bedera reports on her disturbing year-long participant observation of a large university’s Title IX office.
Show Notes

On the Wrong Side
Center for Institutional Courage
https://www.institutionalcourage.org/
Dear Colleague Letter
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/dear_colleague_sexual_violence.pdf

Hunting Ground

Tulane Climate Survey

University of Michigan Climate Survey
https://sexualmisconduct.umich.edu/climate-survey/past-surveys/
Lombardi, Kirsten. 2014. “Reporter’s Toolkit: Investigating Sexual Assault on Your Campus.” Center for Public Integrity. https://publicintegrity.org/education/sexual-assault-on-campus/reporters-toolkit-investigating-sexual-assault-on-your-campus/
White House Report It’s on Us. https://itsonus.org/

Sexual Citizens

Down Girl
Philosopher Kate Manne coined the term himpathy in Down Girl.
Holland KJ, Hutchison EQ, Ahrens CE, Torres MG. 2021. “Reporting is Not Supporting: Why Mandatory Supporting, Not Mandatory Reporting, Must Guide University Sexual Misconduct Policies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8719867/#:~:text=The%20National%20Academies%20of%20Science,that%20will%20better%20support%20survivors.
Proposed federal bill to forgive student loan debt of sexual assault survivors
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2872/text
Know Your IX. 2021. “The Cost of Reporting: Perpetrator Retaliation, Institutional Betrayal, and Student Survivor Pushout.” https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Know-Your-IX-2021-Cost-of-Reporting.pdf
California law now has campus sexual assault victim advocates employed by the state, not the institution of higher education. https://calmatters.org/education/2024/07/cal-state-title-ix-reforms/#:~:text=The%20Cozen%20report%20acknowledges%20campus,agree%20to%20at%20that%20time.%E2%80%9D
Bedera, Nicole, Kristjane Nordmeyer, and Kathryn Holland. 2023. “‘I Could Never Tell My Parents’: Barriers in Queer Women’s Disclosure College Sexual Assault Disclosure to Family Members.” Violence Against Women. 29(5): 800-816.
https://www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c93510_e6b4529d67394e4bb2cd1e181b7c8861.pdf
Bedera, Nicole, and Kristjane Nordmeyer. 2021 “An Inherently Masculine Practice: Understanding the Sexual Victimization of Queer Women.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36(23/24): 11188-11211.
https://www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c93510_407edf9f332d4582916269c1c63f3529.pdf
Bedera, Nicole and Kristjane Nordmeyer. “Forced Back into the Closet: The Impact of Sexual Violence on Sexual Identity Expression.” In progress.

Ahmed, Sarah, editor. 2021. Complaint. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press.

Beyond Compliance: Bedera Consulting
https://www.beyond-compliance-consulting.com/
Jacqueline Cruz. https://www.beyond-compliance-consulting.com/_files/ugd/291553_27d88f9db2a7431eae8784506e27f824.pdf