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Why reporting harm sometimes creates more harm

I reported my supervisor for sexual harassment six months ago and HR made him take a training course but now he's subtly retaliating and I wonder if speaking up made everything worse.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between institutional responses to wrongdoing and actual healing exposes how formal justice can perpetuate the very dynamics it claims to address.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Punitive vs. restorative approaches to harm?”

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