Thread by @anthroqveer

Opening remarks from Frazier Benya, speaking about moving beyond legal compliance to tackle culture/climate. Says that academic culture (e.g. policies) claims we do not tolerate harassment, but the climate (how people actually experience academia) says the opposite #AcademiaToo

Dr Frazier Benya: "We need to treat sexual harassment as the public health crisis that it is" #AcademiaToo

Vineet Arora showing the dire state of medicine for women #AcademiaToo #TimesUpHealthCare @TIMESUPHC

@TIMESUPHC The incredible Brenda Tracy: "If women alone could stop sexual harassment and sexual violence, we already would have". @brendatracy24 #AcademiaToo

@TIMESUPHC @brendatracy24 On the panel 'brainstorming ways to support targets and prevent retaliation', Cari Simon: "retaliation is the grease that allows sexual harassment to thrive". #AcademiaToo

@TIMESUPHC @brendatracy24 TW suicide //

Dr Jennifer Freyd: retaliation and institutional betrayal associated with higher odds of victims attempting suicide #AcademiaToo

@TIMESUPHC @brendatracy24 Dr Jennifer Freyd: "Cherish the truth tellers/ cherish the whistleblowers". Yes! Whistleblowers are heroes, doing service to institutions that aren't doing the work to prevent sexual violence themselves #AcademiaToo

@TIMESUPHC @brendatracy24 Emily Myers bringing up a very important point: if you are an international student, and your advisor/PI is in charge of your visa, how likely are you to report? Diffusing power is vital #AcademiaToo

@TIMESUPHC @brendatracy24 Brenda Tracy speaking about the importance of institutional courage as apologies for harm done. Apologies that are said from one human to another, and acknowledging the pain caused. I can't say how important something like that would be for me. #AcademiaToo

Brenda Tracy: 'Victims just want someone to say to them "What happened to you was not okay. We failed. And we are sorry"'. Important to be followed by real instiutional change, including polcies & procedures #AcademiaToo

Jennifer Gómez: "Trace the money: if institutions say they care about these issues, but the money doesn't follow, that says a lot". #AcademiaToo

More insightful & powerful words from Jennifer Gómez: "Oppression is already on the side of the perpetrator, because it already exists within our institution" #AcademiaToo

NiCole Buchanan: if you add up the tuition fees of all the students who have been harassed, colleges are making millions off of the experiences of these victims. And yet, they can't find the funding for trauma counsellors #AcademiaToo

Rewatching some of the panels from yesterday, and one amazing quote from @KateClancy I managed to miss the first time round:

“If you’re willing to speak up, institutions are willing to wring you dry”

#AcademiaToo

@KateClancy Reshma Jagsi presenting on academic medicine as a 'unique ecosystem in HE' where sexual harassment occurs: Female medical students 220% more likely to experience sexual harassment from faculty/staff than non-STEM students

#AcademiaToo

@KateClancy Jerika Heinze speaking about fieldwork, and the pilot study she carried out, which revealed that 93% of participants said they had received no pre-fieldwork training.

Training is vital, especially when SH is so common in fieldwork.

#AcademiaToo

@KateClancy Jerika Heinze: Institutions treat harassment in the field as a 'personal issue' to the student, as if they are on vacation and not as if they are researching and collecting data the university will benefit from.

#AcademiaToo

@KateClancy TW // murder

Jerika Heinze: The vast majority of transgender women students drop their degrees because they are at significant risk of murder in the field. #AcademiaToo

@KateClancy In the final session of the summit, on building bridges between academic institutions and professional societies to tackle sexual harassment. Billy Williams talking about @theAGU re-defining sexual harassment as scientific misconduct - great step #AcademiaToo