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#timesupacademia - anyone been watching this unfold on twitter?

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ReappearingWoman · 15/04/2018 12:55

Vonny Leclerc has been asking for DMs on 1 academic who has been identified via some vague details & since she started her post, she's uncovered

"So far, serious sexual misconduct at: Oxford, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Swansea, Warwick, Edinburgh, Bangor, Newscastle, Canterbury, Brighton, Herriot Watt, Winchester, Northumbria, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading, York, Exeter, Lancaster. Many multiple offenders"

Looks like a reckoning is about to explode on this.

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SonicVersusGynaephobia · 15/04/2018 20:01

I saw this briefly, but figured I'd missed an earlier post with the details.

So these are powerful male academics sexually harassing women, I assume? Students, or fellow academics?

I take it the universities involved knew and did nothing?

My university is on that list. I will be interested to see what happened there (I wasn't aware of anything, I don't think).

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 15/04/2018 19:50

Goodness, just catching up with this. What an explosion it will be.

I’m waiting for them to move onto medical schools. Quite the royal fuck up will be exposed there.

GoodyMog · 15/04/2018 19:40

The scale of it is dreadful, but sadly unsurprising

Pratchet · 15/04/2018 14:00

Vonny is brilliant. Looks like the start of a big expose.

Lonelystarbuckslover · 15/04/2018 13:59

I have been waiting for months for this to happen. I'm glad it's coming out. I'm sorry for every academic who has had their career affected by a man in this way as well as everyone who has experienced the emotional toll this takes.

Ekphrasis · 15/04/2018 13:54

Just seen this; didnt realise she'd started the collection.

Howyoualldoworkme · 15/04/2018 13:51

I'll be watching about Portsmouth with interest. DH was an academic there for 30 years and I worked 31 as support staff.

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