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A Student at an Oregon Community College Says Instructors Flunked Her for Being a Porn Actress.
A Student at an Oregon Community College Says Instructors Flunked Her for Being a Porn Actress. She’s Suing.It could be the first time a plaintiff has used Title IX to make an accusation of discrimination based on a person’s status as a current or former sex worker.
Last June 8, Nicole Gililland was in her car behind an abandoned house in Lakeside, Ore., waiting to die.
She’d taken 27 Ambien and, for good measure, shot up three bags of what she thought was heroin. Her years of work as a paramedic had taken her to more than a few overdose scenes, and she figured it seemed as good a way to go as any.
“I understand now,” she says, “what a person is thinking in that moment, and they’re thinking they’re doing their loved ones a favor.”
Thirteen hours after taking the drugs, she woke up, sick as a dog. The heroin turned out to have been cut with meth—so it didn’t kill her.
Read more: https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2019/05/08/a-student-at-an-oregon-community-college-says-instructors-flunked-her-for-being-a-porn-actress-shes-suing/
(Williamette Week)
