I’ve seen many posts about the Reckless Ben video and wanted to take time to shout out the survivor who made it possible.
Jordan’s podcast has plenty of survivor guests and has been ongoing for years. We love to see survivors uplifting other survivors.
I’m personally so grateful and so impressed by the courage it took to make this happen. Thank you so much, Jordan!!
Asking because it’s funny and I’ve been a GG fan since reading the books in the mid2000s.
Leighton Meester, Kristen Bell, Penn Badgley, or Chace Crawford are my top choices. I’ve kept up with their careers and liked most of the roles I’ve seen them in since GG. But they’re likely the most expensive other than Blake Lively.
I could see either of the first two playing Zev.
Kristen as the AI would be funny because of her voice in GG.
Leighton has a lot of range and I could see her doing a great Cascadia.
Chace would be one of the strippers.
Penn I could actually see as the AI, but also one of the >!p!<revious cookbook users.
Lily (Kelly Rutherford) as Hekla.
Jessica Szohr (Vanessa) aa Sister Ines.
Tika Sumter (Raina Thorpe season 4) as Imani.
If Michelle Trachtenberg was still alive, she’d be my choice for Bea. I think Kaylee DeFer (Ivy) would also do a good job.
Taylor Momsen as Gwen.
Yin Chang (Nelly Yuki) as Li Na would be interesting, especially after seeing her return to Nelly’s role later on as a more confident, bossy version (when Blair is running her mom’s company and needs a positive review from Nelly).
Wallace Shawn as Quasar.
Robert John Burke (Bart) as Carl’s dad.
Connor Paolo (Eric) as Mordecai.
Zuzanna Szadkowski (Dorota) as Katia.
Bonus: Rufus as Mongo. He just has puppy energy to me.
On my account I read reviews of open programs and highlighted news stories related to the TTI.
My final post was about HB811, asking for people in Ohio to contact their district representatives about supporting it - it’s a bill meant to limit the TTI, in direct response to what has been happening at Youngstar Mohican (shoutout to Brittany Hailer at the Marshall project for being so diligent with her reporting).
My account was banned the same day. I had no infractions before that, no warnings about anything I posted, no removals.
The appeal has gone nowhere so I made a new account. I tried commenting about this on Instagram because it’s the only other place I have a platform (but not for advocacy, though I’ve been doing both there since losing TikTok)- and the comments got immediately removed by META.
Idk if any of y’all have encountered this with your advocacy social media, but it’s seriously disturbing to me. I am an adult content creator for work, and that TikTok account is still active with 7k followers. My advocacy account didn’t even have 700 followers.
If you have TikTok, please follow my new account positivepeercult
Apologies for format, this has been done entirely from my phone.
I am a troubled teen industry survivor. House Bill 811 was drafted with the help of 11:11 Media, Paris Hilton’s organization which passed the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act at the federal level. It’s a privilege to work with them, as previous federal level bills have been introduced and failed before now.
To learn more about the troubled teen industry, KidsOverProfits.org is a survivor run nonprofit dedicated to tracking its history starting with the first program, created by the cult of Synanon. This program was called the Seed, and an Ohio judge sent a 13 year old boy there for selling weed (which was actually catnip). His name was Evan Wright, and he went on to write Generation Kill as well as direct the best docuseries on the troubled teen industry Teen Torture Inc. Sadly, he took his own life the day after it aired.
I have posted about the troubled teen industry before and my previous post about HB 811 was removed for “not being Cincinnati related.” This is a STATEWIDE bill and it requires bipartisan support.
So I’ve taken the effort of looking up the representatives in Cincinnati, and I am listing their email addresses below- this is easy information to find however tedious to collect, so I hope this isn’t removed again.
I have also drafted a sample email if you need a rubric, and will DM it to anyone who asks.
The follow state reps have voted in favor of other legislation meant to “protect” children so therefore should have no problem vocally supporting a bill entirely focused on that- kids die in the troubled teen industry every year.
Jennifer Gross, District 45 rep45@ohiohouse.gov
Mike Odioso, district 30 rep30@ohiohouse.gov
Diane Mullins, district 47 rep47@ohiohouse.gov
Adam Mathews, district 56 rep56@ohiohouse.gov
Jean Schmidt, district 62 rep62@ohiohouse.gov
Adam C Bird, district 63 rep63@ohiohouse.gov
Other Cincinnati representatives by district:
Rachel Baker, district 27 Rep27@ohiohouse.gov
Cecil Thomas, district 25 rep25@ohiohouse.gov
Dani Isaacsohn, district 24 rep24@ohiohouse.gov
Cindy Abrams, district 29 rep29@ohiohouse.gov
Karen Brownlee, district 28 rep28@ohiohouse.gov
Thomas Hall, district 46 rep46@ohiohouse.gov
Ashley Bryant Bailey, district 26 rep26@ohiohouse.gov
Our representatives are currently on recess until May 12. The next session only meets until June 30. Then they are on recess again til November. In order to get this passed, it will have to move quickly through the house and then the senate by June 30 or else wait until November.
Every day we have to wait for this to pass, a child is being tortured in these facilities. Please contact your representatives. This is a statewide issue and that absolutely includes Cincinnati.
If you are a troubled teen industry survivor in Cincinnati, please reach out if you are willing to give testimony about your experience.