Conference Talk
There is something profoundly strange about becoming the scholar of an archive created by your younger self. The girl wrote the diary. The criminal justice system read it as evidence. And now the woman reads it back.
Why Violence Is the Answer to the Rape Problem
Perhaps what frightens society about female rage is not that it is irrational. Perhaps it is that sometimes it makes perfect sense. Rage breaks the script. The compliant survivor asks society to save her. The furious survivor asks why society didn't. And the really furious survivor begins asking a much more dangerous question: if you cannot protect us from violence, on what moral authority do you demand our endless commitment to peacefulness?
We were groomed too!
In other words, when does an account of how people were manipulated become an account that inadvertently excuses their failure to act?