Anne Elrod Whitney

🗣🗯 Professor, writer, feminist, mom, human. Will fight for truth! And kids, teachers, books, justice. ❤️‍🔥
Writing and events:

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Write On, State! https://t.co/J0HATQeaUc

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Suppose it’s a Saturday (it is one! And I wrote a poem with the community at #VerseLove!) https://t.co/7nA0vuVe1K

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Prof. Whitney Goes to Austin https://t.co/WCkN9JCUUh

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Today in Austin https://t.co/9OdS0fPn7U

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Texans, let’s do this! https://t.co/BRR70nsBM1

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Time for a pop quiz. What has Anne been doing? https://t.co/NZoeoRzPTP

[Abigail Pesta @AbigailPesta]

"Trying to make a difference, that's how I find my joy." Lydia and Joy fled a mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria—and got their master's degrees in Florida. They told me about it for @OprahDaily: https://t.co/BzUhol1oVi @seuniversity @oprah @MichelleObama #BringBackOurGirls

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Not my favorite reason to be on TV, but I am eager to draw out more of the others harmed by Mike Spiller in his 50 years of child molesting #gymnastics #sexualabuse https://t.co/y7lnIPzqnv

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

@KENS5's @MattCHouston on Thursday's evening broadcast. San Antonio-area survivors of #AbuserMikeSpiller or others with relevant information may contact @Boerne_TX Police. #gymnastics #sexualabuse Many voices can do what one alone cannot! https://t.co/0tm5DaGGWA

[GymCastic @GymCastic]

Police seek new victims in Texas gymnastics coach sex abuse case going back 40 years | TPR https://t.co/RCEJqiKvYV

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

@KENS5's @MattCHouston on Thursday's evening broadcast. San Antonio-area survivors of #AbuserMikeSpiller or others with relevant information may contact @Boerne_TX Police. #gymnastics #sexualabuse Many voices can do what one alone cannot! https://t.co/0tm5DaGGWA

[Danielle Lerner @danielle_lerner]

The sexual abuse Anne experienced as a child haunted her for decades. This May, she filed a report and found out she was not alone. Her abuser, gymnastics coach Mike Spiller, had assaulted another girl this April.

Police know of at least 5 victims so far.
https://t.co/qaw9thB8gY

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

I'm nowhere near the first. And I sure wasn't the last, even though this has never been much of a secret in my own life OR (in my opinion) in the TX gymnastics community.

How many times do how many kids have to tell in order to stop an abuser?

[Danielle Lerner @danielle_lerner]

In 1983, Anne Whitney was 10 when she was sexually abused by a gymnastics coach at her Houston gym.

This month, the coach, Mike Spiller, was arrested. He abused another child this spring in Boerne, TX.

On a horrific abuse of power spanning decades: https://t.co/qaw9thThv6

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Truth-telling can take a loooong time, but it's NEVER too late. This is a repost of @danielle_lerner's story exposing Mike Spiller, who sexually abused children from the 1970s, to me in 1983, to 2022.

[GymCastic @GymCastic]

Texas gymnastics coach arrested, faces allegations of child sex abuse dating to 1983 in Houston area https://t.co/8xGNaWXds3

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Bam! After 39 years, one less molesting coach. Jillions more to go.#gymnastics #gymnastabuse ⁦@ChronTXSN⁩ https://t.co/R1Snocr5VW

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

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[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

A2: In Growing Writers: Principles for High School Writers and Their Teachers @AnneEWhitney explores how the principles defined in an NCTE position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing: https://t.co/B7vHsaR7o5 #NCTEchat

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

I wish I were surprised. That’s how Mike Spiller, #gymnastics coach who sexually abused me in ‘83 and has multiple accusers from over time, has gone w/o arrest 40+ years. @BoerneStarSport @ChronTXSN @AdultGymnastics @Gymnasts4Change @RAINN @TXAllianceCFS #gymnastabuse

[#IamCatherine🇵🇸🇾🇪💋 @TheBdNvestment5]

Remember last summer when the Olympic gymnasts held a press conference & were like, “the FBI didn’t just ignore the sexual abuse, they intentionally altered our statements and reports to cover it up.”
Who are those FBI agents and why are they not in jail?!

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

Same with un-famous victims! Like Mike Spiller, #gymnastics coach who sexually #abused me in ‘83 and many others right up to now. Will @boerne_TX police arrest him, or let 40+ yrs go w/o attention? Contact me if have info ❤️💪 @GymAssocTX @GymCastic @HoustonChron @thegymterdotnet

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

A Justice Department inspector general report found gross failures on the part of the FBI to properly investigate complaints from gymnasts, who told the bureau in 2015 about the abuse.

And Merrick Garland this last summer REFUSED to prosecute the FBI agents who botched the case

[Anne Elrod Whitney @AnneEWhitney]

"This is an example of what we call 'just-in-time' inventory." https://t.co/hXRNJvLQEn