I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
An interesting reversal is happening right now. The college women who kicked all this off have been superseded in the mainstream media by celebrities… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share
Believe women first. I think this is very important. We must believe women first, and if the evidence truly stacks against them - in… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript -… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the university's rules about sexual consent extend to students' private lives? In my book, I argue that these narrow rules should extend to students' private lives no matter what or where they happen to be conducting those lives. The logic… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share
It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all sides of… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
After studying dozens of sexual assault cases, it is clear to me that the "he said/she said" aspect is a big part of what… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
