As allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and assault continue to come forward in Hollywood, several people from other institutions have also come forward with allegations of their own in a trend that's spread far beyond U.S. borders.
A law student in India published a list on Facebook accusing more than 50 Indian professors of sexual harassment. Raya Sarkar, 24, asked fellow students to send her their own experiences with "academics who have sexually harassed or were sexually predatory" towards them.
Sarkar then took those testimonies and posted them for the world to see on Facebook. According to a statement obtained by BBC, Sarkar says "I wanted to make my friends and friends of friends aware and wary of different sexual predators - based on first-hand testimonies."
"I put the list out to make students safe," she added.
Since posting the list, which includes the names of professors along with the names of the universities at which they teach, it has been shared more than 1,000 times. The list does not, however, include details about the allegations or the accusers.
Only a couple of the men on the list have had official complaints filed against them, but the majority of the named professors haven't received any.
Sarkar's methods have since drawn the ire of Nivedita Menon, a feminist author and professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, who published a statement on Twitter on behalf of a feminist group with whom she is associated, writing:
"It worries us that anybody can be named anonymously, with lack of answerability. Where there are genuine complaints, there are institutions and procedures, which we should utilize...This manner of naming can delegitimize the long struggle against sexual harassment, and make our task as feminists more difficult."
Different factions of the feminist movement took to Twitter to battle it out with some attacking Menon's statement.
Sarkar's decision has been criticized by others including Partha Chatterjee, a well-known Indian political theorist and historian who made the list, who told the Indian news website The Wire that he believed it was unfair that he did not know the nature of the complaint. He added that the publication of unverified lists "is only likely to discredit the cause and diminish the moral force of the unquestionably legitimate demand to transform our universities into a safer place for women."
Sarkar has claimed that "Initially, I wanted to include the names of the complainants and what the people had done," but said many of the people who sent her their experiences wanted to remain anonymous.
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