White Chocolate Mocha + Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

Hey Chicago, on September 8 at 5pm, I'll be talking to Kevin Davis about Carrie Carolyn Coco at the Printers Row Lit Fest. Would love to see you there 👀 printersrowlitfest.org/schedule-grid-…

Yesterday I got tagged in a post responding to this news story: "On August 9, the body of a 31-year-old doctor trainee was found at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The woman had been raped and murdered." npr.org/sections/goats…

This morning I read the draft of a graphic novel by a friend centered on the murder of the mom next door when he was a kid. Then I read about the new Taliban prohibition against women being heard, in addition to the one about being seen. theguardian.com/global-develop…

A man suggested they should rise up, so I mentioned what happened to Iranian women who did recently--prison, rape, torture, murder. Maybe that led me to porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور's tweet about Sarah Gerard's new book, also about a woman being murdered and the sympathy for the murderer....

I pulled this up from my essay on silence a few years ago in The Mother of All Questions. A murderer silences forever.

Sometimes I feel like I'm wading through blood. Violence against women is so ubiquitous and so dismissed I've tried to make it more visible, because it gets so compartmentalized and excused and erased.... And because I want change. I wrote this in 2013: guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit…

Feminism has made a huge difference, but so much more needs to change.

But we're also facing a backlash, embodied by JD Vance and his adjudicated rapist running mate and by the return to pregnancy being something you can die of or go to jail for, thanks to the American fundamentalists....

This is outrageous. The whole world can see what's happening in the West Bank, but the Biden/Harris administration plays dumb -- just as they have for nearly a year as the largest recipient of US welfare in the world conducts a genocide in Gaza. No primary = no accountability

This recording of a college president talking about campus sexual assault is the most disgusting thing I've heard since that recording of Trump on the bus with Billy Bush. Shame on Bard College

This is horrifying. It illuminates what many men would say is a “reasonable” position on campus rape. What he’s actually doing is giving permission for a “he said she said” culture, heavily weighted on the “he said.”

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Sarah Gerard talks about her personal journey and investigative work behind her book "Carrie Carolyn Coco," which deals with themes of friendship, tragedy, and obsession with true crime, in conversation with Kevin Davis.

“We should move away from courts and Title IX processes and have sexual violence dealt with by the community.” The “community”:

The man who procured at least 72 men to rape his unconscious wife is linked to The man who set his girlfriend on fire, who is linked to The man filmed a woman being raped in Pradesh, who is linked to The millions that watched it, who are linked to The guy who killed his ex

Why do we still tolerate this kind of anesthetizing euphemism? This is a site for rapists, aspiring rapists, and rape fetishist, plotting their violence, entering into misogynist conspiracies against women, and seeking victims. theguardian.com/world/article/…