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Not That Bad

By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Gabrielle Union,Ally Sheedy,Lyz Lenz
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Summary

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors, including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault and harassment head-on. 

In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and best-selling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence and aggression they face and where sexual-abuse survivors are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronised, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied' for speaking out. 

Highlighting the stories of well-known actors, writers and experts, as well as new voices being published for the first time, Not That Bad covers a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation and street harrassment. 

Often deeply personal and always unflinchingly honest, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that 'not that bad' must no longer be good enough. 

The full list of narrators includes: Roxane Gay, Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, Claire Schwartz, Aubrey Hirsch, Jill Christman, Lynn Melnick, Brandon Taylor, Emma Smith-Stevens, A. J. McKenna, Lisa Mecham, Vanessa Mártir, xTx, Sophie Mayer, Nora Salem, V. L. Seek, Michelle Chen, Liz Rosema, Anthony Frame, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Miriam Zoila Pérez, Zoe Medeiros, Sharisse Tracey, Stacey May Fowles, Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes, Meredith Talusan, Nicole Boyce and Elissa Bassist.

©2018 Compilation and introduction copyright © 2018 by Roxane Gay (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

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Vital book

All these stories must be heard and rehearsed, told and retold until a tipping point is reached and everything to do with rape culture is banished to a tiny spec of humanity, rather than a norm

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Stories that are told not just as stories but to hear the themes that persist. Amazing book that breaks the silence on things that have all to often been branded ‘not that bad’

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I loved it! It was such a powerful and painful read but definitely one to read.

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An Education!!!

If you're a woman please listen to this and if you're a man please study this! I honestly do not have the words... so raw, honest and smart, I ll be surprised if there's any woman walking the face of the earth who knowingly/unknowingly has not been sexually harassed in some form!!!

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