"A professor stroked my leg to compliment me," says one student. "A fellow student touched me several times without my permission," confides another. They chose the marble columns of the rectory of the University of Turin to denounce the violence they suffered. They papered them with stories, reports, testimonies, and in those words revealed verbal and physical harassment and humiliation. Stories displayed as works in a collective "exhibition" that was born from the union of hands, voices, narratives. There are no names of the victims because it is precisely the collective force that is moving the University of Turin's Me-Too. For the dozens of students who are raising their voices, that is the central site of "a system of systemic violence" permeated by "patriarchal and violent dynamics". A system that would leave no category out. The testimonies collected by the Studenti Indipendenti collective feature faculty, doctoral students, and administrative staff. In a city overwhelmed by the Me-Too storm, two cases have exploded. Forensic medicine professor Giancarlo Di Vella, former director of the university's specialty school until 2021, ended up under house arrest on charges of threats, stalking, and sexual assault. It was also decided to suspend lecturer and philosopher Federico Vercellone, who was reported by at least two doctoral students for jokes, looks, and phrases that resulted in disciplinary proceedings, which ended with a month without pay.
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