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TopicZoe Quinn strikes again.
Corrik7
09/02/19 10:35:19 PM
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Quinn, who uses they/them pronouns, first wrote: "I've been silent about this for almost my entire career and i can't do it anymore. Sorry if this is rambling and messy, I'm scared shitless to out an industry legend like this but I can't live with the secret anymore."

They said they decided to share their story after seeing a post by artist and game designer Nathalie Lawhead about about being raped by an industry legend. Lawhead shared a blog post, titled "calling out my rapist," earlier on Monday detailing her alleged experiences with abuse and rape by Skyrim composer Jeremy Soule.

"So many of the little details, down to the timing, had been things I've gone through too," Quinn wrote of Lawhead's post. "Its haunted me ever since. It's why I don't go to [Game Developers Conference] anymore. I'm drowning too."

Quinn said they began a long-distance relationship with Holowka, who was ostensibly supportive during a time when Quinn was "in an incredibly vulnerable place."
But when they went to visit him in Winnipeg, Canada, Quinn said, the relationship took a turn for the worse.
"While I was in Winnipeg he slowly isolated me from everyone else in my life while absolutely degrading me whenever we were alone," wrote Quinn. "He screamed at me for over an hour once because of the tone in my voice when I said hello. He wouldn't let me leave the apartment without him and refused to give me the code to get in."

Quinn wrote that Holowka blamed them for a past experience of sexual abuse from a previous partner, and that he brought it up repeatedly even during sex. They also wrote that they would hide in the bathroom to avoid Holowka, who would "throw things and hurt himself seemingly at random," only to blame Quinn for it all later. When Holowka refused to buy Quinn's ticket home, as the pair had agreed, Quinn's roommate offered to help them get home.
Quinn detailed that upon returning home, they sent Holowka a "cordial and friendly break up email," to which Holowka responded with hostility.
"He made sure to blacklist me at important industry events. He tried to ruin the career I'd barely started. To a degree it worked," they wrote.

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