I’ve been trying to articulate for myself how the Cornell 7 rape case and the US government’s intention to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan are interrelated parts of a continuum of violence endorsed and perpetuated by the Trump administration. Moira Donegan gets at some of my thoughts in her recent column for the Guardian, The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-10-11T13:03:57+00:00", "url": "https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/11/beyond-the-effort-to-hurt.html", "tags": ["rape culture","Trump admin"] } ] }Sexual violence is intimate, but impersonal: when someone rapes or assaults you, they both force access to the most private parts of your body and also negate your individual qualities, rendering your own thoughts and personality largely moot. So, too, with authoritarianism, which on the one hand seems to seep into the minute corners of our lives, inflecting our thoughts and conversations with its logic, but is also hostile to individualism, blurring citizens into subjects, types.
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