KB

she/her. PhD student & Graduate Fellow. B.A. in PR, M.A. in sociology.

[KB @kblaus]

I’m conducting a study on survivors’ experiences of musician-perpetrated sexual violence. If you’re interested in participating, please complete the brief screening survey via the QR code or the following link. Please repost and share.

https://t.co/OuKK0kV9ol

[𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍𝙰𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 🇨🇦 @LeaveHeardAlone]

This is the PR stunt, not what Blake Lively is doing.

Megyn Kelly is one of Bryan Freedman’s clients. Bryan Freedman allegedly participated in the gang rape of a minor. Freedman is also Baldoni’s lawyer.

Not people I would want around me, as someone who advocates for survivors.

Freedman is running this shit in the press because he couldn’t present any sound legal arguments in the hearing AGAINST applying this bill to Lively’s case and the frivolous lawsuit Baldoni filed against her. So once again: he’s turning to paid influencers.

I did deeply admire Victoria Burke’s work, I truly did. But I think pushing this bill into law in more states is far more important than who is helping to accomplish it. I could hate Blake Lively (I don’t) but if she helped this bill pass in New York, that’s still a net positive for all women. So what’s the issue?

I’ve been disappointed by the leaders behind various movements before, because they refused to speak up for women when they needed it most. Movements always need to be bigger than one person and one perspective.

Because what do you mean that you could watch what happened to Amber Heard in Virginia, write a bill about the ways defamation lawsuits are used to punish victims, and not see the through lines. Not see that that’s exactly what happened to Amber Heard, exactly what happened to Blake Lively?

Why would you participate in an effort put forward by a man who wants to weaken the protections of your own bill in California and prevent it from expanding?

[KB @kblaus]

It’s evergreen

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Opened Google Scholar today and was immediately hit with “AI can now summarize academic articles.” Bro, it’s called an abstract and it already exists.

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Nothing more Israel than holding Muslims hostage

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Vic Vaiana @vicvaiana]

All this in just 4 years.

Remember when they insisted it was impossible to build green infrastructure quickly enough

[Simone @girlpowertbh]

Generation-defining image.

[Variety @Variety]

#HannahEinbinder says it's important to "resist" Spencer Pratt's campaign for LA mayor:

"Spencer shouldn't, and neither should I! I'm with Lisa Rinna. That's not what we want."

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

JD Vance killed the Woke Pope, only for a new, Woker Pope to take his place

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

At a certain point we're just gonna have to not do this. Like I'm not cutting out the word "genuinely" lol. Get the fuck out of here

[chud bastard @chudbastard]

it's so nuts when the mayor actually likes your city and understands what the people in it want and enjoy

[KB @kblaus]

State Farm recast “Jake from State Farm” in January 2020 and still, without fail, there are a bunch of lunatic racists under every one of his posts whining about his being Black. Six years later!!!!! How are these pathetic idiots winning the culture war

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I. Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas.

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

Mamdani put out an easy to use hub for all the free and cheap stuff kids, teens & families can do during the summer, which is the kind of city service that feels so obvious it’s wild no one has done it before — I love this. https://t.co/4OqUZ53AE3

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i cannot think of a more perfectly distilled example of why so many survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward

[Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah]

converting to catholicism but secularly so I can support the pope's war on AI

[KB @kblaus]

Obviously she’s making great points but it is really bizarre that this criticism rose to a level where she felt the need to address it

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Olivia Rodrigo speaks out on criticism for wearing babydoll dresses during Popcast interview:

“What’s really, like, disturbing is I feel like I have worn outfits that are revealing on stage. Like I’ve been on stage in like a sparkly bra, little shorts, which is my right. That’s fun. I felt cool and comfortable in that. And like that wasn’t “inappropriate” — but me, like, fully covered up in a dress that people deem to be, like, childlike was inappropriate. And I just think it just like shows how we really normalize pedophilia in our culture. And also it’s just this rhetoric that we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is like, ‘Don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ Like it’s so weird. And I didn’t think I looked sexy in that at all — I was like ‘This is so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love.’ All these people who are my heroes.”

(https://t.co/J74WyG3Etv)

[Elsie @Meelsie143]

type of shit jordan peterson would say with tears running down his face

[josephine gordone levitte @fetalgeniuss]

Watching everyone rewrite Aziz Ansari as "getting cancelled for a bad date" when she would say no and he would try another way to fuck her