Jen Percy

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Day One Dialogue with Jen Percy and Anne Patterson . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Drawing from Jen Percy’s book, Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation, and Day One’s work with young people and young survivors of gender-based violence, we invite you into a thoughtful conversati...

Join me next week 2/17 for a discussion with the extraordinary @dayoneny.bsky.social about my book Girls Play Dead and how to change the narrative on gendered violence and survivorship. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Feminism in Theory and Practice featuring Jen Percy | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Drawing on original reporting, years of conversations with survivors, and her own life story, Percy explores the surprising ways in which responses to sexual violence are shaped by both evolutionary i...

Tomorrow! TUESDAY 1/20! Join me for a @Clayman_Inst discussion of my new book, GIRLS PLAY DEAD: Acts of Self-Preservation, on women's stigmatized responses to sexual violence. Online and free at 3PM Eastern/Noon Pacific.
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One week from tonight, join us on Thursday, January 15th 7:30pm as we welcome Jaquira Diaz, @deenaelg.bsky.social , Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and @jenpercy.bsky.social to the Pete's stage! 🔥 With your hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social and books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !

Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan Elon Musk’s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up

Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan

Join me tomorrow 11/10 @booksaremagic for the launch of my second book GIRLS PLAY DEAD:ACTS OF SELF PRESERVATION. I’ll be in conversation with Leslie Jamison. girlsplaydead.eventbrite.com

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists — Guardian US When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

“Once you see the videos, there’s nothing about it that is arousing. It’s not a rock movie of a hot woman on a beautiful bed. It’s a naked woman that could be your grandmother. You don’t know her, she’s in a coma; how does this turn you on?” apple.news/ArvmDalzgQ7e...

The National Press Club joins a long and sad list of Australian cultural institutions that have surrendered to political pressure (implied or real) and attempted to cancel or censor critics of Israel.

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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation by Jen Percy Percy (Demon Camp), a New York Times Magazine contributing writer, offers a groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed a...

We're STARRY-eyed over @publisherswkly.bsky.social's review for GIRLS PLAY DEAD by @jenpercy.bsky.social: “A groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault... Extensive, empathetic.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780385550048

21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall

Incredible to see my new book GIRLS PLAY DEAD: ACTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION on @nytimes.com list of top nonfiction books to read this fall. Out 11/11!

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The Billionaire, the Psychedelics and the Best-Selling Memoir

I would be delighted to live in a world where the work of victims of sexual assault who are not billionaires got this kind of media coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary As he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him?

My big story about Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon: nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?

This story names something that had been really bothering me: public opinion, shaped by irrefutable, horrific, daily reporting by people in Gaza, turned against Israeli government years ago. Polls have shown this consistently. Why do Dems ignore their voters on this? nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel’s Crimes of the Century How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

A must read on Israeli war crimes by Suzy Hansen @nymag.com

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