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Senior reporter @HuffPost covering gender + politics, focused on repro justice & gender-based violence. (she/her) avagianos@protonmail.com or DM for Signal
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Sep 12, 2018 10 tweets 3 min read
Everyone. Needs. To. Read. This.

More specifically, every man in my life needs to read this. vox.com/2018/9/10/1782… "I am but half-woke, still reckoning with the instincts and perspectives my upbringing wrote into my code. But I think I can do a decent job explaining, for my more skeptical dude readers... the rudiments of #MeToo — just what it is women see that many men do not."
Sep 11, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
Former @michiganstateu athletic director George Perles (and current trustee) reportedly covered up the accusations, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. huffingtonpost.com/entry/larry-na… #LarryNassar This entire story is completely fucked: The survivor was 17 & a virgin at the time she says Nassar raped her. She later became pregnant and miscarried.
Aug 31, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
As you read DeVos' proposed Title IX regs remember: 3 MILLION college students will be sexually assaulted btwn Aug-Nov. Most will be 1st year women attending parties at upperclass men's off-campus housing. Under DeVos' rules, these women can't file complaints w/ their school. 87 percent of college students live off-campus. When DeVos excludes off-campus assault in Title IX regulations, she's excluding the majority of students & the majority of night life that exists on campuses.
Aug 29, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
"He has protected them, taken care of them, worked with me & worked with their parents. He’s been amazing," Mary Lee Tracy, @USAGym's new elite dev coordinator, said of #LarryNassar in 2016.

More than 50 girls had already accused him of abuse at the time. huffingtonpost.com/entry/mary-lee… "USA Gymnastics has appointed someone who, in my view, supported Nassar, victim-shamed survivors, & has shown no willingness to learn from the past." -- @Aly_Raisman
Aug 24, 2018 17 tweets 3 min read
This is the last place I ran alone & carefree. A thread on Mollie Tibbetts and running alone as a woman. I didn’t always love running. It wasn’t until I got to college that I realized just how helpful it was for my mental health.