Tiffany Reese

What indicators should families and students look out for?

What misunderstandings about survivor behavior do universities often weaponize?

In your book, you reference how universities create illusionary pathways that look supportive but are structurally doomed to fail.

Can you talk about what that looks like in practice?

And something that seems equally confusing that's come up for survivors in the interviews that we've conducted is the survivor understanding the difference between an informal report versus a formal complaint.

Is that common in your experience for survivors to not necessarily understand the structure of how the reporting process flows and how that can impact the outcome?

One of the things you talk about is fragmenting violence.

Can you explain that to the listeners?

I'm curious, what are some of the systemic and cultural reasons why schools tend to protect the accused versus the survivors when it comes to sexual violence?

Did you find that certain stakeholder groups like faculty, staff, coaches had patterns of complicity?

Did you have any cases at Western University that involved staff perpetuating violence onto students?

How does it affect survivors when professors or other faculty intervene in these cases?

What changes do you feel could make Title IX more accessible and equitable?

And what structural reforms are actually feasible in the near future?

After years of doing this research and meeting with hundreds, if not thousands of survivors, what gives you hope?

How can listeners, advocates, faculty, how can we all contribute to this positive change?

Thank you so much.

We'll be sure to link to your book, On the Wrong Side, How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Prey Survivors of Sexual Violence in the episode notes.

Where else can people follow you and the work that you do?

Next time on Something Was Wrong.