5.0

A powerful set of essays. It took me a very long time to read this book, as I wanted to give myself both the time to think about each essay and the time to recover from reading each one. The theme of "not that bad" was reflected on in most of the essays, with a resounding rejoinder that every sexual assault, every rape, is that bad.

Gabrielle Union's essay in particular stood out to me. Union unpacks her conflict of emotion over being able to portray an important character in a film, a film she was very proud of, only to have the director be accused of sexual assault.

Highly recommend.