Hey, we're going to be talking a lot about sexual violence in this series.

There's also some language.

If either of those things are upsetting for you, please take care while you're listening.

It was August 2018 and I was slipping into a hot, stuffy subway car when I got this call

on my cell phone.

The caller ID given name, Axiom.

It was weird.

But then a lot of weird things had been happening around me since I started reporting on a whole

lot of women's allegations against the movie-mocal Harvey Weinstein.

I'd gotten strange texts and emails.

I'd seen suspicious cars parked outside of my apartment.

Sources had told me to get a gun and I moved out of my home.

The point is it was getting to me.

I ignored the call, but a little later I got this text from the same number.

It said, I'm trying to reach you directly and privately.

It's regarding a frypan that's scratch resistant.

Sometimes I cook and the black coating scares me.

I knew exactly what it meant.

In October 2017, the New Yorker started publishing my reporting on Harvey Weinstein, containing

the first rape and sexual assault allegations against him.

A New Yorker story published yesterday included a recording from a New York police sting

operation in 2015.

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