Hilary Jerome Scarsella

Academic religionist | Trauma & sexual violence researcher | CRCDS asst ethics & WGS prof | Director & survivor advocate at @Into_Account | Standard disclaimers

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Students for the win.

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Not fully on board with the recommendation, but do be aware of the problem.

[Know Your IX @knowyourIX]

Professor, did you skip part of the reading? 🤔 If you’d read it, you’d know that *no other school process* requires the school to assume a student’s lack of responsibility.

Read the whole paragraph for an example of *actual* due process that doesn’t rely on anti-survivor myths.

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@TKPcreates I want a whole picture book about Vashti

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Some of the church did this, and the rest of the church didn’t stop it. That’s why your congregations and seminaries are dying. #RoeVsWade

[Saint Hoax @SaintHoax]

This. All of this. Every word.
#RoeVsWade

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Hey, remember how a survivor with a PhD in psychology tried to warn the country that Brett Kavanaugh had a history of attacking women and violating their bodily autonomy?

It’s so weird how he just used his position of court authority to do it again. #RoeVsWade

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@ShaneClaiborne @TKPcreates Shane, you literally texted her that you didn’t share it because you thought it didn’t make her or the group you were leading together “look good, or prayerful, or peaceful.” You stated plainly that it was about optics.

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@ShaneClaiborne @TKPcreates Shane, that is a boldfaced lie. That wasn’t your reason. And even if it was, it would be wildly paternalistic given that she asked you to share it and you initially refused.

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

When @ShaneClaiborne visited my community years ago he insisted on not using fossil fuels. Which sounds great, but in reality meant Amish had to personally chauffeur him around non-Amish events the whole time. It was gross. And his treatment of queer people & WOC is much worse.

[Alicia T. Crosby (she/her) @aliciatcrosby]

WOW @ShaneClaiborne! This is supremely fucked up & I'm saying this publicly bc not only was @TKPcreates' assault public, she's making the compounded harm you & @pagitt are complicit in public.

We can 1:1 later but you know I deal with harm where it occurs & this began in public.

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Women of color (and white women too) have been asking Shane Claiborne et al. to do better for years. And here we are again.

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

High five to all who had an activated nervous system today and made it through. Your deep breaths, scattered mind, lost track of time, frenzied feelings, palpitating chest, strategic distractions—they are signs of your humanity. You are brilliant in your survival & I am grateful.

[Into Account @into_account]

Why Reproductive Rights are Survivors' Rights: A 🧵 #churchtoo #metoo #roevwade

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Num 5:11-31 “If a man fears his wife’s pregnancy might be the result of sex with another man, the priest ordained as God’s hand on earth is to give the woman an abortifacient. If her pregnancy is aborted she is guilty. If not, she’s innocent. Thus saith the Lord.” #RoeVWade

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We’re going get creative and find ways to get folks the medical care they need, because there have always been insurmountable obstacles to women’s wellbeing, and we have and will always find ways through nonetheless. Love to you tonight and tomorrow and in the days ahead.

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Friends taking in news from the Supreme Court tonight with stilted breath, I see you. I’m grabbing your hand. We’re going to be there for each other. We’re going to stick together and figure this out. 1/2 #RoeVWade

[Hilary Jerome Scarsella @HJScarsella]

Truuuuee

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I often have a hard time following sexual violence cases in white evangelical spaces bc I wasn’t raised in one, & it all seems entirely wack. But this Hillsong docu-series is important. Hillsong is an extreme case, but the basic lessons apply across white, N. American Xianity

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@into_account This preachers n sneakers business is amazing.