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Senator Hanson-Young hasn’t just written an essay detailing this disgusting abuse she encounters daily in her job. This is a rousing call to arms for every girl, woman and woman-identifying person in Australia. A call to fight back against right-wing, white and predominately male (I would be remiss to not include Pauline Hanson) bullies running our country. This is a must-read for every woman and every man who doesn’t think is as bad as we keep saying it is.

Thank you Sarah, for being a voice of reason inside the Senate. Thank you for battling the front line of rampant misogyny and bullying. Thank you for giving us a voice.

This essay made me rage, it was passionate and detailed, but also ranty and inconclusive. I wanted an action plan dammit!

Solid 4*

My first reread of 2019, this is a heartbreaking account of one woman’s hell at the hands of her abusive father. A must read for lovers of true crime and the psychological fallout for victims of ongoing and unrelenting mental, sexual and physical abuse. The writing leaves a lot of room for improvement, but I feel it adds to the dimension of the story. This is not the story of a well educated middle class woman. This is the story of a woman from a low socio-economic family, who was in and out of foster care for much of her childhood. The writing speaks to this. It could benefit from a good edit, but at the risk of losing her voice.