
Fairfax has tried to brand me as a liar to a national audience, in service to his political ambitions, and has threatened litigation. Fairfax and I never gave any form of consent," Tyson said in the statement. To be very clear, I did not want to engage in oral sex with Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual. "I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Tyson claimed Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him, during which she said she cried and gagged. She said the two were kissing consensually kissing but the encounter allegedly "quickly turned into a sexual assault." Tyson alleged she met Fairfax at the Democratic National Convention in Boston on in July 2004. Ralph Northam, who is embroiled in his own scandal over a racist yearbook photo, "flooded" her "with painful memories, bringing back feelings of grief, shame, and anger." Fairfax and Northam are both Democrats. Tyson said the prospect of Fairfax succeeding Gov. Tyson came forward with the accusations against Fairfax in a statement last week that described her experience in graphic detail and questioned how Fairfax could believe the encounter was consensual. Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), had been scheduled to attend the event before her accusations against Fairfax became public.

She is spending the year at Stanford in part researching "the political discourse surrounding sexual assault," according the center's website. Tyson is an associate professor of political science at Scripps College about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. Tyson was joined on stage by a fellow center researcher Jennifer Freyd and moderated by law school professor Paul Brest to discuss "the underlying dynamics of sexual violence and institutional betrayal" according to symposium literature.


Tyson is now represented by the same legal team that represented Blasey Ford.
