Molly Brookfield

Molly Brookfield

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Molly Brookfield is a PhD candidate in the departments of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently writing a dissertation that examines women’s experiences of street harassment in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Her research interests stand at the intersection of urban history, masculinity and gender studies, and the history of sexual violence.

MeToo

Why It’s Bad When It’s “Not That Bad”

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When then-Senator Al Franken was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women this past November, I braced myself for the backlash. I grew up in Minnesota, so my social media threads were filled with Franken-loving Minnesotans begging him not to resign and castigating his accusers for blowing their experiences out of proportion. One friend of… Read more →