To the Editor:
In reference to your editorial, I want to clarify that my position, like yours, is that survivors should seek justice and get rape kits done and allow testing for date-rape drugs. Of course, this is only if they feel comfortable doing so, for the police can often traumatize survivors further, and I in no way mean to be prescriptive about any sort of universal healing process.
I brought up the issue of date-rape drugs in my speech (which apparently some found hard to follow) to examine a more nuanced, post-structuralist argument concerning the nature of truth. My point is that all objective and scientific evidence is vulnerable to being dismantled and dismissed by those who have the balance of power in their favor. Recent articles in The Herald suggest that others have the same worry.
Emma Sulkowicz
