We don't have to do anything For all its gestures toward radicalism and openness, Brooklyn's hip young "alt lit" scene might not be any less toxic for women than...well, anywhere else, according to a series of essays published this week accusing a prominent young editor of sexual assault. The scandal—now a hot topic across the social-media platforms on which the alt-lit scene thrives—kicked off this weekend, when 20-yearold writer Sophia Katz published an essay on Medium about an alt-lit magazine editor who she claims sexually abused her. Hip Alt-Lit Editor Quits Public Writing Career After Rape Accusations While Katz doesn't name the editor in the piece—she used the pseudonym "Stan"—other writers have said that Katz was writing about Stephen Tully Dierks, the 29-year-old editor of the alt-lit mag Pop Serial. Pop Serial is influential in the close-knit alt-lit scene (Tao Lin designed its latest issue cover) and Dierks is one of its boy kings— a fact which, Katz writes in her essay, makes it easy for him to prey on young girls. Katz, who's based in Toronto, says that when she visited New York last May to make career connections, Dierks gave her a place to stay and then coerced her, repeatedly, into having sex with him. After she published her story and other women came forward to corroborate and add to her allegations, Dierks deleted his Twitter account and announced on Facebook that he was leaving public life. https://medium.com/human-parts/we-dont-have-to-do-anything9148a953f39d http://www.playgroundmag.net/articulos/columnas/sexualesvergonzoso-generacion_0_1400259962.html