Even if you're broken
Subtitle: essays on sexual assault and #MeToo
By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publisher: Blue Crow Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781947834422; 9781947834439
Subjects: Rape; Sexual harassment; Women; Crimes against; Sexual harassment in universities and colleges; Sexual Offenses; Sexual Harassment
Work titles: Works
Description: "From the bestselling author of 'Life of the Mind Interrupted' comes an essay collection 'rich in vulnerability and candor.' How do we make a good life in a world where sexual violence always lurks in the shadows? Katie Pryal, a rape survivor, a former law professor, and a bestselling author, takes on the rapidly changing legal and social landscape of #MeToo, Title IX, and the lawsuits they've empowered women to bring. Moving between the deeply personal and the socially critical, the essays in this collection are incisive dispatches from survivor territory. In these fiery essays, Pryal documents reporting her rape to a university Title IX office, in grim, yet hilarious, detail. She turns her law-trained eye to the Bill Cosby case and to musician Kesha's struggle to break free of her recording contract because of alleged abuse by her producer. This book is for survivors, those who love them, and those who want to make the world a better place for them. These stories strip away shame. They burn off fear. They lay bare the injustices women face and how we can fight them. Most of all, Pryal shows how she has fought those injustices herself-and by showing us, she inspires us to do the same. "Rich in vulnerability and candor, Pryal's evocative essays remind us that the survivor journey is far from linear, and that there is power and beauty in our imperfect journey." -Andrea Pino, co-author of We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out"--
Notes: Contains material written by the author previously published in whole or in part.

Includes bibliographical references.