Book: A Survivor of Sexual Assault Speaks Out
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:34 pm
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).
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).