Violence Prevention and Awareness

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/opin ... -rape.html

How to Sell Your Rape Story
There’s nothing special about my story. That’s the point.
By Lacy Crawford
Ms. Crawford is the author of a memoir.

1. Know that, to rise to the attention of media gatekeepers, your rape story must clear a bar that love and murder and adventure and dragon stories don’t have to clear and be either horrible (gang rape, deep lacerations) or gilded (see No. 2).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/book ... wford.html

Book: A Survivor of Sexual Assault Speaks Out

In her author’s note, Lacy Crawford writes, “This is, among other things, a story of slander, of how an institution slandered a teenage girl to coerce her into silence.” Credit...Camille Quartz

Inevitably, when a woman comes forward with an allegation of a sexual assault from many years ago, a certain type of person will ask, “Why now?” The question dogged Christine Blasey Ford during her Senate testimony in 2018 and was used in an attempt to discredit women victimized by both Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. In Lacy Crawford’s erudite and devastating memoir recounting her time as a student at St. Paul’s School, an elite boarding school in Concord, N.H., the question does not arrive until the last 15 pages of the book.