Table of Contents
Introduction Roxane Gay ix
Fragments Aubrey Hirsch 1
Slaughterhouse Island Jill Christman 15
& the Truth Is, I Have No Story Claire Schwartz 33
The Luckiest MILF in Brooklyn Lynn Melnick 49
Spectator: My Family, My Rapist, and Mourning Online Brandon Taylor 59
The Sun Emma Smith-Stevens 69
Sixty-Three Days AJ McKenna 79
Only the Lonely Lisa Mecham 89
What I Told Myself Vanessa Máartir 99
Stasis Ally Sheedy 105
The Ways We Are Taught to Be a Girl xTx 115
Floccinaucinihilipilification So Mayer 129
The Life Ruiner Nora Salem 143
All the Angry Women Lyz Lenz 155
Good Girls Amy Jo Burns 167
Utmost Resistance: Law and the Queer Woman or How I Sat in a Classroom and Listened to My Male Classmates Debate How to Define Force and Consent Y. L. Seek 177
Bodies Against Borders Michelle Chen 189
Wiping the Stain Clean Gabrielle Union 203
What We Didn't Say Liz Rosema 207
I Said Yes Anthony Frame 213
Knowing Better Samhita Mukhopadhyay 229
Not That Loud: Quiet Encounters with Rape Culture Miriam Zoila Pérez 235
Why I Stopped Zoë Medeiros 243
Picture Perfect Sharisse Tracey 253
To Get Out from Under It Stacey May Fowles 273
Reaping What Rape Culture Sows: Live from the Killing Fields of Growing Up Female in America Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes 289
Invisible Light Waves Meredith Talusan 301
Getting Home Nicole Boyce 307
Why I Didn't Say No Elissa Bassist 323
Contributors 341
Acknowledgments 349