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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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We don’t get a lot of feel good stories on Cyber. It’s often a podcast about hacking and tribulation. So we thought we’d do something a little different and tell the story of someone who fought back against abuse and won. Nicole Gililland is a former nursing student who began to experience discrimination when people at the nursing college she was attended began to dig into her past.
Gililland was just trying to get a nursing degree, but the faculty at Southwestern Oregon Community College decided she wasn’t fit because she’d formerly performed in porn. She sued. She won. A jury awarded her $1.7 million in damages and the precedent set could have far reaching consequences.
On this episode of Cyber, Gililland sits down with Motherboard senior editor Samantha Cole to talk about her case and her future.
Stories discussed in this episode:
How a Former Porn Performer Sued Her School for Discrimination—and Won
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0:00.0 | Tanneness got the code it's going to launch |
0:06.6 | It's a unit system |
0:11.0 | I know this |
0:12.6 | It's how all the files of the whole park |
0:15.3 | It tells you everything |
0:17.6 | Sir he's uploading the virus |
0:19.4 | Eagle one the package is being delivered. |
0:24.0 | Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galtz, and this is Cyber. |
0:28.7 | Now, we don't get a lot of feel-good stories on this show. It's always hacking and tribulation on the podcast. |
0:33.9 | So we thought we'd do something a little different until the story of someone who fought back |
0:37.9 | against abuse and won. Nicole Gilliland is a former nursing student who began to experience |
0:43.3 | discrimination when people at the nursing college she attended began to dig into her past. |
0:49.3 | Gilliland was just trying to get a nursing degree, but the faculty at Southwestern Oregon Community |
0:53.6 | College decided she wasn't fit because she'd formally performed in porn. She sued, she won, |
1:01.7 | a jury awarded her 1.7 million in damages, and the precedent set could have far-reaching |
1:07.9 | consequences. With me here today is Motherboard's senior editor, Samantha Cole, who recently wrote about |
1:13.4 | the case and the student who lived through it, Nicole Gilliland. |
1:17.3 | Samantha's story is on the site. |
1:19.1 | It is How a Former Porn Performer School for Discrimination and One. |
1:24.2 | Thank you both so much for coming onto the show. |
1:26.7 | Thanks for having me. Thank you. Good to be here again. |
1:30.9 | All right, Nicole. So can you kind of, let's start from the beginning of this story. So you're, |
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