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It’s #InternationalWomensDay, and I’m thinking about the women who’ve had my back, but also the ones who haven’t. I’d like to share with you two stories about casual cruelty from other women through the lens of my wrongful conviction. One of them has a twist ending. /🧵
I’m not a huge fan of murder mystery thrillers (shocker, I know). But I’m even less a fan when Foxy Knoxy pops up as shorthand for “weirdo slutty killer” in fiction, like it does in the latest book by Paula Hawkins, author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Girl on the Train. 
“There was something about that girl, something off. Weaselly. Pretty, sharp-toothed. Sexually available.” Those lines are from Hawkins’ book Slow Fire Burning. Here’s the full paragraph. To be frank, reading that felt shitty. I’d like to take you through a close reading of why.
