5/ I’m sharing excerpts from my complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights. 🔗 above.

Join @thefireorg.bsky.social in taking action at thefire.org/rochester.

4/ People assume abuse will fade with the last generation of men who got away with it. That’s a comforting fantasy. But I saw students in their twenties reenacting it. This isn’t a glitch in Eastman's culture—it IS the culture.

3/ An administrator worried his students would become "a lynch mob" after I reported him. The school took no steps to stop it.

One student—who had renamed our studio chat after the harassing remarks—later declared he had "no qualms" with the professor.

2/ He insisted his students were "a family." The result was cult-like behavior. Long after the formal harassment finding, his students—all men—posted signs celebrating him around their cubicles: "The Varon Zone" "Students of Neil Varon" "Which Neil Are You Today?"

4/ I’m sharing excerpts from my complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights. 🔗 above.Join @thefireorg.bsky.social in taking action at thefire.org/rochester.

3/ The school repeatedly claimed that "policy" prevented them from dealing with an abusive prof with a confirmed harassment finding.

When they wanted to expel me with no cause or process, they practically lit the handbook on fire to get away with it.

2/ He led with "Please don’t take this the wrong way" and offered to refund my fees and expedite my transcripts.

When I published an account of the meeting, he threatened me with a lawsuit.

An investigation confirmed that the he mishandled the case. He is still the Title IX Coordinator.

5/ I’m sharing excerpts from my complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights. 🔗 above.Join @thefireorg.bsky.social l in taking action at thefire.org/rochester.

4/ I reported it all to the school, along with his screaming and cursing in the classroom. They said there were other complaints. I declined a formal report. I just asked to limit contact. The school advised me to transfer instead. I was expelled with no process or appeal 18 months later.

3/ I didn't report at first. Then I got an unwanted text from the former prof—the one I was "impregnated" by—at my advisor's request. They had "a long convo" about me and decided I was "challenging" but "worth the trouble."

2/ Another student immediately renamed the cohort group chat after the "impreganted" comment. He thought it was “iconic.”

6/The policy is theater. The ideology is real. Protect men behaving badly. By any means necessary.

I’m sharing excerpts from my DHR complaint against Eastman.

Substack link above.

Join @thefireorg.bsky.social in taking action: thefire.org/rochester

5/And of course, @urochester.bsky.social protects abusers too.

Who can forget Florian Jaeger?

16 women came forward. UR granted him tenure.

He's not the only one.

4/Douglas Humpherys said student he’d make a student's life “a living hell” for reporting harassment—in a recorded conversation.

Eastman gave him a teaching award—the same year a student sued him for harassment.

3/William VerMeulen threatened to expel a student to pressure her into sex.

He stayed on Eastman's roster for years—until his dick-pics... er... I mean... "private images"... appeared online last summer.

2/A university investigation found that Neil Varon violated harassment policy in his conduct toward me.

He stayed.I was expelled.

I was going to post a beautiful Henry Nouwen quote, but it’s too long. “Hang in there” will have to do. 🫶🫶🫶