Thread by @JillianWeise

I need the record to show the way
The State of Florida
treats me, a queer disabled woman
who is also cyborg,
thus gender nonconforming
bc cyborg is not gendered

#LetTheRecordShow #DisabilityTwitter

I am employed by @floridastate

On November 8, 2022, an employee of FSU kissed me WITHOUT MY CONSENT in front of another employee of FSU in the parking lot of Gaines Street Pies

This is called battery. I am a tenured, Associate Professor at FSU, and I am not okay with battery committed against me by a colleague in my Department.

Here is the police report about the battery: 2023-90000198

@TDOnline @WCTV @mycbs4 @abc27

One month later -- and do I think that is relevant? well I don't know, I'm not superstitious -- on December 8, 2022, another male colleague sent an email to public, state-owned listserv with photograph of the colleague and the message: "I hate diversity ..."

Given I hold multiple, diverse identities, as a queer disabled woman in The State of Florida, I could not just let that email go. I could not just look the other way. I could not just pretend I didn't see what we all saw.

So I replied to the email. Here is how I replied:

The way that I replied , as detailed below, caused the male colleague to 1) threaten my life 2) sexually harass me and 3) discriminate against me.

This is happening in The State of Florida. In an English Department. @andersoncooper

https://twitter.com/JillianWeise/status/1611967257789272065

The male colleague then sent a barrage of emails targeting me, specifically, and one line of his read:

"If we ever meet, I would like to take your hand and place it on my chest"

I thought: if that man kills me? he can put my hand wherever he wants.

I left The State.

I am employed by @floridastate but I am not in The State of Florida. Because it is not safe for me, as a disabled queer woman, who is also cyborg -- and I write about my cyborg identity for @nytimes -- to be in The State of Florida.

@orlandosentinel @Scott_Maxwell

Here is the police report on the harassing communications for the colleague who targeted me over public listserv: 2022-00231003

I am a poet.
I am not a journalist.

I am asking any journalist to look into what is happening. #journorequest #journorequests

It is far too easy to think: "Florida will not be safe for gender nonconforming and trans people in the future."

Florida is already not safe. For me.

I am nowhere near Florida.

#AcademicFreedom #WhatFreedom

Now I wld appreciate it if fellow trans and gender nonconforming friends on this app would rally to my side. Instead of spewing add'l hate abt me.

If you are already w/ me, then I thank you.

If you spew hate, I see you. I see how yr friendship w/ me was conditional

🏳️‍⚧️🌈♿️

And just to be clear: I am in solidarity with all trans and nonbinary and gender nonconforming people not just in The State of Florida but also around The World.

I am in solidarity w/ you whether we know each other or not. But I am especially in solidarity w/ u if I am yr friend

My solidarity with you is not contingent on you acting "right" or behaving "a certain way" that I approve of.

No.

My solidarity with you is on the basis of your humanity.

That's about all I have to say on the matter tonight.

But I will be talking about this again.

And again.

And again.

As long as it takes. Until I can return to my home in The State of Florida. I'm an actual Floridian. I went to high school there. That State is my home.