Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

by Roxane Gay

Rape was and is a cultural and political act: it attempts to remove a person with agency, autonomy, and belonging from their community, to secrete them and separate them, to depoliticize their body by rendering it detachable, violable, nothing.

SEXUAL ASSAULT MUST SIMULTANEOUSLY BE TERRIBLE AND BE something you’re able to accept—which is an impossibly hard thing to negotiate. Inevitability must also be a key factor, because God forbid if there was something you could have done to stop it.