I focused my energies today on replying to e-mails within Telluride but in the meantime, the Association has issued a public statement heavily implying that I've engaged in so-called bullying or threatening behavior. Rather than re-tell the events of last weekend, I will quote an e-mail that I wrote to the House and members of Telluride Association pertaining to those events. -- I would like you to consider what has transpired in the past 72 hours, after a. I made a complaint of transphobic discrimination, and b. an embedded committee invested in a particular outcome decided not to take action against my violator without any hearing or revealing any details about how they decided. After this, the following course of events happened in quick succession. * an anonymous evaluation system that would have allowed Housemembers to engage in victim-blaming against me was proposed. * a vote to evict me was initiated when I stated that I would not comply. * when I posted my grievances on a House community blog that all Housemembers have access to, my post was taken down and my posting privileges suspended without notice, and only restored when I pointed out that this was against Cornell Code of Conduct. * I received an e-mail suspending my scholarship for "bullying," which in this context involved me shouting "This is what democracy looks like!" and pounding my fists at the dinner table when my fellow housemembers, including my violator despite a no-contact order between us, were trying to talk and laugh over me as I was relating my account of being censored. * Police were called and I was threatened with arrest, and only called off when I pointed out that there were many witnesses with cameras. Given this state of affairs, I honestly do not experience my actions up to this point as "tactics." I experience them as "means for survival against a totalitarian institution." Anyone who has observed what has transpired and cannot recognize the gross violations of basic human rights involved is probably lucky to not have my experience, of living through a totalitarian dictatorship. And one of the reasons that dictatorship lasted for so long was because authorities so effectively played on the emotions of its people, presenting their charming and smiling faces even as they were engaged in murder, crying when caught only to kill even more people. This is why for me, sympathy is suspended when you take away my right to speak. These are rights I am willing to sacrifice myself to the fullest extent for. I am willing to go to prison for these rights, or to stay in the living room for an indefinite period until these rights are restored, through Winter Break and beyond. I am willing to endure all manner of physical and psychological pain for these rights because to not do so would be to dishonor the legacy of the thousands upon thousands of Filipinos who gave up their lives so that we can live in a country where we can speak freely, and where laws are not applied selectively to target those who oppose the despots in power. If this is what Telluride Association decides that I should go through to be treated as a human being, so be it. Just know that the world is watching and is continuing to watch. And know that for housemembers who continue to engage with the humanity of others who are not treating me as human, you are accessories to the crimes being committed against me. In justice, Meredith