![]() The girls would come up to me after the bell rang, in tears, and whisper what had happened to them. ![]() I’d give these large talks, often in a high school auditorium, with a thousand students seated and me - a stranger - on stage. ![]() I thought I was supposed to talk to the girls. I assumed my job was to model survivorship, and to show readers how to speak up after being abused, molested or attacked. It happened to me when I was 13 years old. It is commonly read in high school and college literature classes, and has proven to be a useful springboard to conversations about rape mythology, sexual violence and consent. It was after the publication of my novel, Speak, which tells the story of a teenage girl struggling through the emotional aftermath of being raped. I started visiting schools two decades ago.
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