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10 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read

diving in immediately

newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

this irritated me to no end when i first read the original nytimes piece

now that i've read larson's prose, and know how bad it is, i find her snobbery about what counts as True Art even more ridiculous

extremely relieved to find out the new yorker agrees that the kidney story was, indeed, bad

this is unlikely to come as happy news for sonya larson, who had previously submitted (or planned to submit) her magnum opus to the new yorker

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11 Oct

Imagine being a friend and work colleague of Sonya's, and a one-time instructor of Dawn's, and feeling like it's okay for you to publicly opine on this fiasco

wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

https://twitter.com/stevealmondjoy/status/1447536745923424260

And then this dude has THE GALL to browbeat about "misogyny" and "the patriarchy"

https://twitter.com/stevealmondjoy/status/1447536745923424260

screenshotting in case he deletes

fwiw, i'm a woman. PLENTY of women see the problem with this fiasco. this has nothing to do with tHe PaTrIaRcHy

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kidneygate

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11 Oct

For those interested, here is Dawn and Sonya’s very first email exchange about the kidney story, in chronological order

1/ June 30, 2016: Dawn reaches out to Sonya, tries to ask about the kidney story as casually as possible

2/ July 2: Sonya confides to her friend and fellow Chunky Monkey Whitney Scharer that Dawn Dorland has found out about the kidney story

"Haven’t written back yet. 😁" says Sonya. "I must say that I feel my guilt wearing off, though"

3/ July 11: Sonya finally replies to Dawn

"Ah, it’s good to hear from you"

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@kidneygate

9 Oct

thread on GrubStreet’s egregious dereliction of duty in failing to properly investigate Dawn Dorland’s extremely valid HR complaint against their employee, Sonya Larson

with screenshots taken from here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

In 2018, Dawn Dorland emailed Eve Bridburg, the executive director of GrubStreet, asking to initiate a formal HR complaint against Sonya Larson.

Some of the details here have not been mentioned before (eg, Larson telling Dorland not to write about race)

Bridburg responded (1), but the investigation did not appear to go very far

so Dorland resigned from Grubstreet (2)

In response (3), Bridburg tells Dorland that Grubstreet took her complaint "very seriously," while cc'ing 2 members of the Chunky Monkeys

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