To Be Outspoken.
Content warning: Discussion of sexual assault in the context of impact and social activism.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). If you’ve read an advance copy of The Wilderness of Girls or even just skimmed the content warnings on the book page, you know that the topic of sexual assault comes up. I don’t want to spoil the book by discussing it too much here, but I will say this was not a choice I made lightly, and yet when I did make the choice it was like uncovering the precise cypher I needed to decode the rest of the book…