S25 Ep22: Answering Community Questions with Dr. Nicole Bedera, Dr. Kathryn Holland & Dr. Jacqueline Cruz Part 2
Something Was Wrong
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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*Content Warning: institutional betrayal, institutional trauma, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, campus violence, gender-based violence, psychological trauma, victim-blaming, discrimination, gender inequality, harassment, and hostile campus environments. Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips:
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Follow Dr. Nicole Bedera:
- Website: https://www.nicolebedera.com/
- Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/nbedera.bsky.social
- Book: On The Wrong Side - How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence: https://www.nicolebedera.com/about-1
- Beyond Compliance Consulting: https://www.beyond-compliance-consulting.com/
- Survivor Alumni Network: https://survivoralumninetwork.org/
Follow Dr. Jacqueline Cruz:
- Dr. Jacqueline Cruz on Google Scholars: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oHhHaTEAAAAJ&hl=en
- Beyond Compliance Consulting: https://www.beyond-compliance-consulting.com/
- Survivor Alumni Network: https://survivoralumninetwork.org/
Follow Dr. Kathryn Holland:
- Website: https://psychology.unl.edu/person/kathryn-holland/
- Dr. Kathryn Holland on Google Scholars: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OgJhWwoAAAAJ&hl=en
SWW S25 Theme Song & Artwork:
- The S25 cover art is by the Amazing Sara Stewart instagram.com/okaynotgreat/
- The S25 theme song is a cover of Glad Rag’s U Think U from their album Wonder Under, performed by the incredible Abayomi instagram.com/Abayomithesinger. The S25 theme song cover was produced by Janice “JP” Pacheco instagram.com/jtooswavy/
*Sources:
-Bedera, Nicole et al. “"I Could Never Tell My Parents": Barriers to Queer Women's College Sexual Assault Disclosure to Family Members.” Violence against women vol. 29,5 (2023): 800-816. doi:10.1177/10778012221101920 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35938472/
-Bedera, Nicole. (2021). Moaning and Eye Contact: Men’s Use of Ambiguous Signals in Attributions of Consent to Their Partners. Violence Against Women. 27. 3093-3113. 10.1177/1077801221992870 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349905933_Moaning_and_Eye_Contact_Men's_Use_of_Ambiguous_Signals_in_Attributions_of_Consent_to_Their_Partners
-Bedera, Nicole Krystine. On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. University of California Press, 2024. https://www.nicolebedera.com/about-1
-Bedera, Nicole. (2022). The Illusion of Choice: Organizational Dependency and the Neutralization of University Sexual Assault Complaints. Law & Policy. 44. 10.1111/lapo.12194. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362058763_The_Illusion_of_Choice_Organizational_Dependency_and_the_Neutralization_of_University_Sexual_Assault_Complaints
-Cipriano, A. E., Holland, K. J., Bedera, N., Eagan, S. R., & Diede, A. S. (2022). Severe and pervasive? Consequences of sexual harassment for graduate students and their Title IX report outcomes. Feminist Criminology, 17(3), 343–367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851211062579
-Cruz, Jacqueline. (2021). The Constraints of Fear and Neutrality in Title IX Administrators’ Responses to Sexual Violence. The Journal of Higher Education, 92(3), 363–384. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2020.1809268
-Cruz, Jacqueline. “Gender Inequality in Higher Education: University Title IX Administrators’ Responses to Sexual Violence.” Google, New York University, 2020, scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=oHhHaTEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=oHhHaTEAAAAJ%3Ad1gkVwhDpl0C
-Holland, K. J., & Cortina, L. M. (2013). When sex-based harassment becomes sexual harassment: College students’ experiences. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(2), 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032040
-Holland, K. J., & Cortina, L. M. (2016). Sexual harassment: Undermining the well-being of working women. Journal of Social Issues, 72(4), 825–842. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12190
-Holland, K. J., Rabelo, V. C., & Cortina, L. M. (2014). Sex-based harassment and discrimination: Evidence of psychological harm. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 38(3), 368–382. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684314521575
- Holland, K. J. (2019). Culture, power, and gender-based violence in institutions. In C. B. Travis & J. W. White (Eds.), APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women (Vol. 2, pp. 253–271). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000059-014
- Holland, Kathryn J, and Rebecca L Howard Valdivia. “Title IX and Sexual Violence in Higher Education: A Mapping Review and Assessment of Policy Implementation and Effectiveness.” Journal of sex research, 1-19. 18 Feb. 2026, doi:10.1080/00224499.2026.2623649. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41705546/
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| 0:00.0 | Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences and discusses topics that may be upsetting. |
| 0:05.9 | This season discusses sexual, physical, and psychological violence. |
| 0:10.4 | Please consume the following episodes with care. |
| 0:13.3 | For a full content warning, sources, and resources for each individual episode, please visit the episode notes. |
| 0:21.5 | Opinions shared by the guests of the show are their own and do not necessarily represent |
| 0:26.0 | the views of Broken Cycle Media. The podcast in any linked materials should not be misconstrued |
| 0:32.3 | as a substitution for legal or medical advice. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:38.2 | You think you know me, you don't know me well at all. |
| 0:44.3 | You don't know anybody till you talk to someone. |
| 1:05.1 | A listener asked, if I didn't understand it was wrong at the time, does that mean it was an abuse? |
| 1:11.8 | How would you respond? |
| 1:13.4 | This is Catherine. |
| 1:14.3 | I can jump in. |
| 1:15.6 | And I want to say that this is something that is unbelievably common. |
| 1:21.0 | The way that you look at or think about an experience that you had, if it differs now from when it was before, that |
| 1:28.3 | doesn't mean that it wasn't abuse. That doesn't mean that it wasn't trauma. There are a lot of |
| 1:35.7 | ways in which our sociocultural structures, norms, institutions actively work to try to convince people |
| 1:43.9 | that experiences of harassment and violence are not |
| 1:47.7 | actually bad, are not harassment and violence. One of the primary things that I hear when people |
| 1:55.2 | talk about either why they didn't want to report or why they were at first hesitant to tell people about their |
| 2:02.4 | experience is that they weren't sure that it was bad enough. They weren't sure it was severe |
| 2:07.3 | enough, that there's worse things that could have happened or other people have had it worse. |
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