IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the trauma the Trump campaign caused many feminists. In it she argues that reliving the sexist double standards of the 2016 campaign, watching the misogyny on the campaign trail, and seeing an accused sexual predator get so close to the presidency for a second time, was a psychologically traumatic experience for millions of women in the US; especially survivors of sexual assault.
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