#IAmJaneDoe: A Campaign in Solidarity with Cornell Alleged Gang-Rape Victim
Women are using the hashtag to back a Cornell accuser as 35% of undergraduate women there reported nonconsensual sexual contact in a 2025 survey.
- A woman suing Cornell University and seven fraternity members for an alleged 2024 gang rape faces online harassment as skeptics attempt to reveal her identity. Her lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told CNN the student is "under siege on social media."
- The woman filed suit on September 16, prompting prosecutors to reopen a criminal investigation they had initially closed without charges. The accused men have denied all wrongdoing, according to the New York Times.
- A Cornell survey found 35% of undergraduate women reported nonconsensual sexual contact since arriving on campus, up from 20% in 2021. Women are posting on social media that they are Jane Doe in solidarity with the survivor.
- New York Governor Kathy Hochul appointed the state's attorney general as special prosecutor on Friday, faulting police and prosecutors for failing to fully investigate the woman's allegations.
- Supporters like Katy Jacobson and Amee Vanderpool counter the harassment by directing survivors to RAINN resources. Jacobson, a 35-year-old survivor herself, said the hashtag helps survivors "feel like youre on an island" less often.
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#IAmJaneDoe: A campaign in solidarity with Cornell alleged gang-rape victim
A wave of videos is spreading across social media under the hashtag #IAmJaneDoe to express solidarity with an anonymous Cornell University student who alleges she was sexually assaulted by several members…
#IAmJaneDoe goes viral — but TikTok isn’t a courtroom
#IAmJaneDoe is trending after sexual assault allegations were levied against seven fraternity members at Cornell University by one woman, known as Jane Doe.While TikTokers across the globe have picked up the story and have begun speaking out in defense of the young woman, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey points out that social media outrage is not a substitute for due process.“You’ve met Jane Doe before,” one TikToker said, in protest of the accu…
A content creator threatened on 29 September to reveal the identity of the one who filed a complaint of collective rape against members of a fraternity of the American university. In response, Internet users unite on social networks in a wave of solidarity with #MeToo.
Beyond #MeToo, the alleged gang rape at Cornell unleashed a flip-the-table, burn-it-all-down primal scream - The Boston Globe
The Cornell rape case and #IAmJaneDoe movement have reignited anger over sexual violence and campus accountability nearly a decade after #MeToo.
Letters to the Editor: ‘I am Jane Doe’ solidarity is the modern version of an old act of courage
'By declaring "I am Jane Doe," thousands are not only standing with one woman, but deliberately making it more difficult for internet searches, social media and algorithms to distinguish the real Jane Doe from everyone else,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
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