Reading Aisha’s story has brought a lot of things flooding back for me, some I’m not really ready or willing to talk about on social media

I have personally found that men in the field can forget that the way they treat women/etc. will have repercussions after you leave the bush

Sometimes when we’re doing fieldwork in really isolated environments it can maybe seem like rules don’t apply anymore, but being able to feel safe during fieldwork isn’t something I take for granted anymore. I’m hyper aware of any man that comes into the camp

Men come into the forest and feel like they can be their feral manly selves and might forget that the overly firm grip on a colleagues thigh after a few beers can leave her fearful later in her tent, knowing that there’s probably not always going to be someone around to help

I don’t know where this rant is going. It’s a horrible thing to take advantage of someone in any context. But most often, it’s happened to me in the field.

People are just sometimes a bit more bold or act in ways they wouldn’t if they were home and that SUCKS.

I’ve been more seriously physically hurt by a man in a completely different context, but honestly Im still more afraid of the American guy who cornered me & held me down telling me not to ignore him before passing out turning up again than I am of the random threat of muggers