A court has ruled that a privacy lawsuit against a professor can move forward. The suit arises from a book written by the professor that mentioned a former teaching assistant's childhood sexual abuse.
The book reportedly advocates an 'endarkened feminist approach to revolutionizing teacher consciousness.' The former TA claims that revealing her history of abuse in the text was an invasion of privacy. The court's ruling allows the case to proceed past the initial dismissal stage.
The decision is notable because it touches on the tension between academic expression and personal privacy. A scholarly book is not automatically protected from liability when it discloses an identifiable person's intimate details. The litigation will now continue.