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Is Madison Campbell a ‘Fraud’—or a Feminist Hero?
“I am not going to let the same system that is already failing so many survivors tell me that there’s nothing I can fucking do to make it better.” (Courtesy of Madison Campbell)
She says she’s democratizing rape kits. Two state attorneys general say she’s guilty of deception. Olivia Reingold meets the woman trying to disrupt our criminal justice system.
By Olivia Reingold
08.12.24 — Culture and Ideas
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If you don’t like it, make your own. That’s the ethos that has driven decades of American founders in Silicon Valley—and that led a 28-year-old named Madison Campbell to develop an at-home rape kit.

But unlike the young men in cities like Seattle and Palo Alto, California, who built empires from their garages, Campbell is a five-foot-four blonde from Pit…

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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