Episode 25: "Brock Turner for Prison" Facebook Group Founders on Rape Culture and #MeToo

On this episode of en(gender)ed, we have two guests, Maria Mayo and Nadia Dawisha, co-founders of the online group called “Brock Turner for Prison.”  Maria is a survivor of rape and domestic violence as well as a practicing attorney who proposed a class on “Sexual Violence and the Law" when she attended law school).  Nadia is a former professor and worked on Ohio’s victims’ rights legislation. Maria and Nadia have been running the "Brock Turner for Prison" page since June 2016 to address issues of sexual violence and violence against women in the media and the site has grown now to over 25 admins, a Twitter and an Instagram account.  Brock Turner for Prison will also be launching a website and a podcast in the near future.

We speak to Maria and Nadia today about their Facebook group and a response to the Brock Turner rape case,  the subsequent recall of the judge on that case, Aaron Persky, and Brock Turner's most recent failed appeal.  

In our conversation, Maria and Nadia and I addressed the following resources:

• The impact of Nadia's work to hold University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, accountable for their Title IX violations
• The Federal Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights
• The film Wind River which exemplifies the challenges Native American sexual assault survivors experience in getting their rapes prosecuted
• "Emily Doe" letter to Judge Persky about Brock Turner rape
• Summary of the Brock Turner rape case as reported in this Guardian article
• Brock Turner's father's controversial letter defending his son
• Why the Stanford Judge Gave Brock Turner Six Months
• Rape Conviction Rates and statistics about perpetrators of sexual violence from RAINN
• Maria and Nadia's hashtags including #BoysWillBeBetter, #UseTheRightWords
• Judge Aaron Persky's recall, led by Michele Dauber
• Judge Archie Simonson's recall in 1977 in Wisconsin
• UNC Chapel Hill Professor Zeynep Tufekci's research on social movements and technology
• Brock Turner failed appeal and its reasoning
• Episode 12, our interview with Tom Digby, author of Love and War:  How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
• Lili Loufbourow's article, "The Female Price of Male Pleasure"
• CUNY, School of Public Health, Professor Spring Cooper's research on Sexual Agency
• Teri's Blog Post on Senator McCain's passing and the normalization of abuse, sexism and bad behavior
• The media's characterization of Hugh Hefner as feminist icon instead of exploitation masking as sex positivity
• Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs:  Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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