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Anne Elrod Whitney

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    What’s keeping me writing?

    March 29, 2025 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    https://open.substack.com/pub/anneelrodwhitney/p/whats-keeping-me-writing-this-week-f8b?r=3bm6p6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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    What’s keeping me writing this week, #2

    April 24, 2024 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Yes! I have indeed been writing! And Taylor Swift is involved. Sort of. Go ahead; read about it.

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    Fear of the Unknown (Stories I thought I Knew)

    February 5, 2024 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Happy to share this piece from over at my Substack. It’s part of what I think will be a new book, memoir-ish and full of my shitshow trauma learning over the last few years. And, yes, this means I am writing again! Embarrassing stories from middle school are a great way to rip off the bandaid…

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    Convicted. At last. For now.

    October 6, 2023 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Yesterday I and a few other people abused by my childhood coach saw him sentenced to prison in Texas. Ricardo Delgado’s story in the San Antonio Express-News here. Zachary Taylor Wright’s story in MySA here. I gave an impact statement, right to his face, and will need some time to know exactly how I feel about it… except proud. The…

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    Pop Quiz, or, Report to my employer on the last three years after a “Sabbatical.”

    January 28, 2023 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    (Dear reader, I know there is irony in speaking of truth and then redacting parts of this post. However, my commitment to living in the truth does not extend to telling other people’s truths on the internet, and so I have hidden details pertaining to other people where I felt the need to give them the gift of privacy.) Now,…

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    On TV

    December 5, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    The last thing I ever thought I’d be doing on TV news is talking about this! Usually it’s students of mine doing a cute performance, or maybe photos of them eating ice cream at a festival or something!

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  • Justice - Uncategorized - Writing

    A story about telling my story

    November 30, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    When I decided in spring 2022 to make sure that the man who had sexually abused me in 1983 had actually been officially reported to law enforcement, I did so for my own peace of mind if nothing else. I had no real sense of the places it would lead. Now Mike Spiller, a gymnastics coach who sexually abused me…

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    Abuser in jail. Boom.

    November 18, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    They got him. This is Mike Spiller, the gymnastics coach who sexually abused me when I was 10. It took 39 years, but tonight there’s ONE LESS ABUSER out there getting away with it. Thanks so much to the people who shared, retweeted, looked up old photos, etc. It took your help to turn up enough of my fellow victims/warriors…

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    Doing Hard Things

    September 23, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    In conversation today, I heard myself use a line I’ve used about myself many times, a line that feels truer every time I say it: I am great at big things; I’m terrible at little things. I make no claims about the originality of this line, but I have been saying it since my twenties and it’s truer than ever…

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    The much-awaited appointment yielded zero news!

    September 1, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Still “we don’t know.” The additional pathology results say semi-encouraging things like “no immunological evidence of lymphoma” but also aggravating things like “etiology cannot be concluded based on this analysis.” Dr Fox will be taking his case to their tumor conference on Tuesday and hopes to know more after those experts discuss it. He also mentioned sending samples out to…

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