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/
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?
Jun 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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/
Is there a hotline for victims and survivors of abuse in academia?
This is a serious question.
Jun 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve been receiving so many messages about abuse at Stanford and abuse in academia in general.
My god. The suffering.
Jun 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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?
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