#allyn walker

Reinstate Professor Allyn Walker

Reinstate Professor Allyn Walker On November 16, 2021, Professor Allyn Walker was placed on administrative leave from their position as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University… …These attacks against a well-known and widely-respected member of the child sexual abuse prevention community are based on nothing more than misinformation and stigma, all fueled…

Do I blame anyone for really not liking the entire situation? No not really protecting kids is arguably like the basis of politics and victims of sexual abuse are pretty powerless already. Especially as queer people, I think we all feel like maps are being let off the hook to an extent and I share that visceral sense of injustice that I don't get to have the moral high ground over pedophiles. Those hangups about that perceived injustice shouldn't be what inform our politics though.

People all over the world are inventing new flavors of misgendering of course their statement is gonna be rehearsed bc half the people up in arms think they're like an actual pedophile and like I think map is a shitty concept like it doesn't really touch power relations at all. It's a bad book and a deeply flawed methodology but people aren't exactly debating scientific philosophy here.

I've been on the receiving end of a "this Troon is pro rape" campaign and it's really not the vibe. Like you say something as benign as "the way cis lesbians treat trans women with abject disgust is bad probably" and you've got random women twice your age talking about how disappointed my father must be and that you're mansplaining consent. I was 15. Nothing short of public castration is going to be the "correct" and I can safely say dr walker's life is going to be ruined by this. The harassment will not stop. No kids were helped.

As for the LGBT comparison, I think it's a glaring sign that grounding gayness psychiatrically hasn't worked in the past and clearly doesn't encapsulate heteropatriarchy. Like when it was a mental illness, the dsm didn't say anything about gender as a setup that presupposes heterosexuality, how fluid and complicated gayness is, how it changes your relation to your understanding of gender. Psychiatry can't describe power imbalances- like is your ptsd still ptsd when you're actively worrying about the real possibility of a drone attack? The MAP category is bound to be unsatisfactory but that's the entire field. The coming out comparison is benign once you say yeah acting on gayness is cool acting on pedophilia is not, but they're both stigmatized preferences that psychology is using the same tools to grapple with. I think if what walker wrote still enrages you, then I think you might really be mad at psychiatry, the social category of crime, the family unit, and the entire carceral apparatus they're clumsily navigating.

A disgraced pedophile-defending professor and author has been hired by Johns Hopkins to work in the child sex abuse center. Allyn Walker, a non-binary author who defended pedophiles as "minor attracted persons," was forced to resign from Old Dominion in November after an interview with Prostasia, a group that advocates to destigmatize pedophiles.

Walker is slated to begin work as a postdoctoral fellow at the storied Baltimore university beginning on May 24, and will be working to prevent child sex abuse.

"We are excited to share that Allyn Walker, PhD, will be joining the Moore Center as a postdoctoral fellow on May 25," the Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse said in a statement.