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

Show Notes

Tulane Climate Survey

https://climatesurvey.tulane.edu/

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 Ushttps://itsonus.org/

Down Girl

Philosopher Kate Manne coined the term himpathy in Down Girl.

https://www.katemanne.net/down-girl.html

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 Sciencehttps://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.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint