Thread by @4th_WaveNow

1. HEADS-UP to anyone who cares about free speech and the hounding of academics who won't toe the line: US feminist studies PhD. candidate/teaching assistant Laura Tanner @saltyfemst is the target of an escalating coordinated smear campaign at @ucsantabarbara . Please share.

2. They are attacking her for what she says on Twitter (of course), but evidently also for "bringing in her own struggles" in a class discussion about poverty: "Ma'm, you're white!"

3. There have been demonstrations against her. "Dumb Bitch!"

"Stank white pussy ass bitch!"

These are the people who claim misgendering is "literal violence."

4. "In light of a Feminist Studies graduate student’s transphobic and anti-sex work rhetoric ...We demand that specific steps be taken to ensure that those espousing openly racist, anti-sex work and transphobic beliefs do not continue to teach or TA for the department."

5. Source for above demand letter:

docs.google.com/document/d/1eO…

6. A demonstration against Laura happened today. #ThirdWave realities: A feminist studies graduate student TA hounded for her views on prostitution and gender.

7. Campus officials appear to be falling in line.

8. Doing their bit to make her an "unemployed TERF." The @ucsantabarbara Director of Equal Opportunity of Discrimination Prevention (he/him/his) is on it.

Let's talk about who is actually being discriminated against here.

9. "Report this transphobic professor to the Ethics Committee!"

"She also identifies as a lesbian from what I can gather from her page...I'm just...disgusted!"

10. "That bitch needs to die."

11. "Gatekeeper of womanhood."

Everyone I disagree with is a white supremacist out to erase indigenous identities.

12. Evidently it's fine to "reduce women to their genitals" when you need to insult a woman you disagree with.

13. According to this tweeter, some @ucsantabarbara professors and staff have joined the pile-on.

14. Latest from @ucsantabarbara students, published today. "Instructors should not promote material in the classroom & department that denies the reality of trans people’s experiences or reifies gendered & sexed binaries as essential or real."

…isbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/alu…