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Anna Fore Waymack

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Aug 3, 2018

With respect, no. Title IX is broken. Our criminal justice system even more so. They have different outcomes, standards of evidence, and obstacles. Using one does not preclude using the other. Survivors should choose what will serve them best--both, one, or neither.

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Anna Fore Waymack

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Aug 3, 2018

I'm not denying Title IX has flaws. But in many cases it may make more sense or be safer than going to police. There's been a fair bit on this from the women who kicked off our current anti-campus-harassment push--see http://msnbc.com/msnbc/campus-rape-victims-choice-should-be-lawmakers-priority… and https://knowyourix.org/issues/schools-handle-sexual-violence-reports/….

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Anna Fore Waymack

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Aug 3, 2018

Undocumented and/or PoC survivors may have good reason to fear the police; the legal investigation can be retraumatizing; one has to meet a nearly-impossible standard of evidence for events that are often he-said/she-said; harassment of men and genderqueer ppl gets dismissed

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Anna Fore Waymack

@annawaymack

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Aug 3, 2018

Have already written some on the differences and why the respective standards of evidence matter for survivors:

medium.com

Philomela on Campus

Content Warnings: pretty much all of them. Sexual assault, murder, mental illness, self-harm, other violence.

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Anna Fore Waymack

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Aug 3, 2018

There are no good options. All have costs; all carry vulnerabilities to retaliation and personal/career security. But the potential to deal with this stuff under Title IX from 2011 on, thanks to groups like

@knowyourIX

, has been a monumental step forward.

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