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lgilmore.bsky.social
Feminist literary critic. Ask me about memoir. Author of Tainted Witness: (Columbia 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell 2023), and The #MeToo Effect (Columbia 2023).
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Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

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Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

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Who sexually harassed Cassie Hutchinson and will they be subject to ethics inquiries?

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Just terrifying that this totally inexperienced and capricious opportunist, in thrall to a mash up of extremist ideologies, the most coherent of which is savage misogyny, is about to be one skipped beat of an obese elderly man’s heart away from the presidency.

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The numbing regularity of the cover up of sexual abuse.

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Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

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"One key feature of rape culture: how ordinary many of the men who rape are," writes @lgilmore.bsky.social. "We cannot understand this case without confronting the disturbing reality that the men who raped Gisèle went about their lives without suspicion." Must read. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

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I wrote about the Pelicot case and the ordinariness of men who rape.

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#MLA25 attendees, plz check out our roundtable on "Unaccountably Queer" on Thurs Jan 9 @ 3:30PM in Camp Room (3rd floor) of Hilton Riverside. Presenters include Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, Amber Jamilla Musser, Lynne Huffer, Megan Cole Paustian, @lgilmore.bsky.social, & @cassiusa.bsky.social

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The Editorial Management Board of Gender & Justice invites applications for a Co-Editor in Chief to join the existing editorial team of the journal. Applications close on 31 January 2025. Details: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... Please circulate

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Uh… when a number of people decide not to vote for a candidate because she’s a woman and not white, that is the very definition of identity politics.

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A Post investigation found at least 1,800 law enforcement officers were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022. After years of reporting on children being violated by the officers sworn to protect them, here’s what we’ve learned:

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Musk endorsed the AfD party in Germany. If you are unfamilar with AfD's abhorrent politics, the FT has the background. www.ft.com/content/4c2e...

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Is the most disturbing aspect of the Pelicot rape trial that monsters don’t look like monsters? Rapists are overwhelmingly familiar. They are husbands, boyfriends, neighbors, clergy. You know them.

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All defendants found guilty. Ex-husband gets maximum sentence. Gisele’s courage is remarkable.

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WOW. Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi's letter to Biden (but, really, to all) is today's required reading: "I have battled for justice, even if it meant there would be none for me." And, though unnamed, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin get their earned response.

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This special issue is filled with extraordinary essays and, in response to them, Butler explores more autobiographical territory than is their norm. Brilliantly edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social. You can read my essay here and I wholeheartedly recommend the entire issue.

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"My anger alerted me to sources of danger and helped me navigate to places of relative freedom and joy. . . . it is, after all, a high alert warning system — I learned to welcome its insights and wisdom."—Leigh Gilmore, author of THE #METOO EFFECT

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First big #MeToo case when the Pelicot trial is happening now? It takes nothing away from Adele Haenel to put her courage in the context of others.

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And @michaeldango on prison as paradigmatic scene of rape is crucial here

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This engrossing review by @benwurgaft.bsky.social contains a wonderful reflection on interdisciplinarity.

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Leigh Gilmore, the author of “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women," told the New York Times this kind of [sexual abuse] backstory is "appealing" to Trump, because "it normalizes his own behavior." www.salon.com/2024/12/05/w...

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"When patients or their doctors have requested to see nH Predict's reports, UnitedHealth has denied their requests, telling them the information is proprietary."

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50% off on books by @columbiaup.bsky.social !!! If comics/feminism/Jews interests you, here’s my 2016 monograph on sale… cup.columbia.edu/book/how-com...

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You can get 50% off all @columbiaup.bsky.social books today, including mine. cup.columbia.edu/book/tainted...

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getting on the bandwagon

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This beauty just arrived, brilliantly edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social. Filled with essays I’m looking forward to reading, including a response by Judith Butler. On the 20th anniversary of Giving an Account of Oneself. Honored to be in this conversation and company.

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I talked with Peter Baker yesterday about Trump’s rapey nominees and why not to write obituaries for #MeToo.

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Stayed too long on that other site. Happy to find so many of you already here. I write about literature and feminism. Long walker, yoga practitioner, fly fisher, horseback rider.

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