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Dr. Dorothy Kim
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Dr. Dorothy Kim

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Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist. She/her/hers.

Joined April 2012

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    1. alix is  🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer)‏ @alixplicitly 23 Jun 2020

      alix is  🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer) Retweeted alix is  🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer)

      Actually, you know what. His name is Andrew Gow, he is/was a medieval history prof at the University of Alberta. I kept my mouth shut for 13 fucking years. I don't think he teaches anymore (thankfully) but I just I needed to say it. I'm sick of not saying it.https://twitter.com/alixplicitly/status/1274127861457096704 …

      alix is  🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer) added,

      I was sexually assaulted by one of my professors at University when I was 19. He spent months grooming me, telling me how smart I was, how my queerness made me so unique and special. He kissed me in his office one day, and I remember being stunned and confused. After the semester was over, he invited me over to talk things over. He’s been my mentor and friend all semester, so I went over there. And when he kissed me again I just froze. He performed oral sex on me while I lay on the couch, totally frozen, staring at the ceiling.
I tried to talk to a classmate later about what had happened, trying to make sense of it. She told me I must have “misunderstood” what had happened because he had kids my age and she “didn’t believe” he could be a pedophile.
It made me doubt myself and shut down, and it was years before I spoke to anyone else about what had happened. Having pedophilia used to label what happened to me added an extra layer of confusion and pain to what I was going through.
      Now, well-meaning strangers keep describing rapists like mine as pedophiles. Where someone once dismissed me because “he can’t be a pedophile,” now I sometimes have people call him a pedophile to condemn him. 

Raping a teenager is awful. An older man raping a teenager is awful. But it’s not pedophilia and we don’t need to call it that. And we shouldn’t, not because I give a shit about protecting rapists, but because survivors of sexual assault shouldn’t have to grapple with the anxiety and confusion I did. I’m not a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. My rapist wasn’t a pedophile. I shouldn’t have to keep clarifying that, to “defend” my rapist, but I want my real experience to be seen, to be believed. 

You think you’re helping, by acting like what he did was somehow worse because I was young. But that’s not what happened, and what happened to me, the truth of the thing that actually happened, it matters. Don’t call it what it’s not. Don’t take my story away from me and twist it.
      alix is  🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer) @alixplicitly
      Can we please, PLEASE stop calling adults who rape teenagers “pedophiles”? Words matter, and not because I want to defend rapists. Because as someone who was once a teenage victim of an adult rapist, having him called a pedophile erases the story of what actually happened to me. pic.twitter.com/rotTkP76zL
      30 replies 25 retweets 123 likes
      Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @alixplicitly

      I am so sorry. And I believe you.

      5:20 PM - 27 Jun 2020
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      • alix is 🎃 explicitly haunted (and still queer) Stacie is Proud of You
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