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From a 2021 article by @SzendiChelsea

#ShinzoAbe #ComfortWomen #RapeCulture #SexualViolence #MeToo #DemocracyNotViolence

thenation.com/article/world/… From a 2021 article: While the Japanese government has not In 2015, under Prime Minister Abe, the Japanese government d
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Jul 8
In 5/2022 I received an email from a stranger in Japan who claimed that “Koreans lie like they breathe,” that the “comfort women” were not actually raped or sold into sexual slavery, that Koreans were “cowards” passively complicit in their own victimization. 1/
I tried to ignore the email. But as a rape survivor of Korean descent who has written about the “comfort women” & who has been called both a “coward” (for not coming out as a survivor until 2016) & “a prostitute” (after I came out as a survivor), I felt targeted & upset. 2/
The more I tried to avoid thinking about the email, the more I felt the model minority leave my body like a ghost.

And what replaced that ghost:

Fire. 3/
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Dr. Seo-Young Chu (주서영) she/her Profile picture
Jul 5
What would a map of rape culture look like?
Where are the capital cities? In what neighborhoods do you and your family reside? Which zones are relatively safe? Which borders are you unwilling to cross?
In the map of rape culture as I experience it, high concentrations of rape culture can be found in the Ivy League, the US Supreme Court, Stanford University, Trump Tower
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Dr. Seo-Young Chu (주서영) she/her Profile picture
Jun 30
In 11/2017 @Stanford’s General Counsel sent me a letter that included the following detail, a detail still startling to me in the ugliest way: Prof Jay Fliegelman (the General Counsel wrote) assaulted me in 2000 after playing for me a “porno video.” 1/
documentcloud.org/documents/4323…
My response (in 2017 & today): I have no memory of being compelled to watch a “porno video.” (Was I drugged?) I do remember being compelled by Fliegelman to stroke a rare & expensive book covered with waste sheets from an 18th-c pornographic novel called Fanny Hill. 2/
From a 2/2018 article: «“I wanted the full report to know more about this detail that jarred me so much… it was this new detail out of nowhere after 17, 18 years. It was like the story suddenly changed,” Chu said.» 3/

stanforddaily.com/2018/02/26/pro…
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Dr. Seo-Young Chu (주서영) she/her Profile picture
Jun 29
Is there a hotline for victims and survivors of abuse in academia?
This is a serious question.
The reason why I posted this question: So many people in academia are suffering. The abuse encompasses sexual violence, labor exploitation, disability discrimination, racist aggression, microaggressions, intellectual theft, stalking, bullying, I could go on and on. 1/
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Dr. Seo-Young Chu (주서영) she/her Profile picture
Jun 29
I’ve been receiving so many messages about abuse at Stanford and abuse in academia in general.
My god. The suffering.
There are so many of us.
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Dr. Seo-Young Chu (주서영) she/her Profile picture
Jun 27
Thank you to those who have alerted me to accounts screenshotting my words, spreading misinformation, and mocking me for being an “ungrateful alum.” Some facts:

(1) I’ve had a lot of advantages. Being a legacy is not among them. Being a “millionaire” is not among them.
(2) I am as “proud” to have degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Harvard as I would be “proud” to sport a necklace of blood diamonds. Yes, those degrees may “glitter.” But how much pain, injustice, conflict, humiliation, abuse, and violence does such glitter belie?
(3) Why did I attend such schools? I was trying to be a good daughter. My parents sacrificed a lot to give me a life less chaotic and violent than theirs. They trusted “good” schools to keep their daughter safe from the “bad” behavior of serial abusers. Their trust was violated.
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