![]() ![]() Some essays talk about rape directly others cover different violations, harrassments, and fears relating to sex. The pieces themselves utilize several different forms, including drawings, lists, footnotes, fragments, poems, and more. The essays vary widely, but are all tied together by dissatisfaction with rape culture in all its various forms– the ways it is dismissed, allowed, and perpetualized by men, authority figures, media, or others. I had to continually pause my other books to read more of this one, which I had not planned to read but couldn’t quit.Ībout the book: Gay brings together thirty authors– from diverse races, genders, and backgrounds– who reflect on the ways they have personally been affected by rape culture. I started reading it the day it arrived in my mailbox. I ordered it the same day I first heard of it. The first time I saw anything posted about Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture, a collection of essays edited by Roxane Gay, I knew it was a book I had to read. I did not know this book existed, even though I’d read Roxane Gay’s memoir, Hunger, earlier this year and liked it enough to look up more of her works. ![]()
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