Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: What was and wasn’t achieved at the Cop29 climate talks, Diana Wichtel’s life in TV, and poets – can they drive? Hera Lindsay Bird investigates. But first: Zeni Gibson has been stalked and harassed for nearly nine years by a man she rejected when she was 17. This morning we shared her story, along with this editorial from Madeleine Holden.
“In August last year, The Spinoff received a polite yet tentative email from a 24-year-old woman named Zeni Gibson. ‘I am hoping to speak to someone about the possibility of publishing a personal story,’ her email began. I called Gibson shortly afterwards to discuss. When we began speaking, I was struck by how self-effacing and hesitant she was. ‘This is probably silly,’ she’d say, or ‘I’m not sure if there’s any kind of story in this.’ Then, over the course of around an hour, she relayed to me an intensely serious and horrifying account of stalking and harassment. This morning, The Spinoff published that story – Gibson’s harrowing account of being stalked and harassed for almost a decade by an older man she barely knows and whom she rejected when she was 17. The story is Gibson’s first-person account as told to me, but since our first phone call, I have been living and breathing this topic. And one thing that won’t necessarily come through from reading her account, and that I want to firmly underline, is this: Gibson’s story is extreme, but it isn’t rare.”
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Zeni’s experience is extreme, but it isn’t rare
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