A Beautiful and Important Story
This book cover is absolutely gorgeous. I started reading this without any context, and I think it perfectly fits the subject matter.
What I read was haunting, disgusting and tragically accurate to our current world. But it was beautifully done. I was drawn in immediately by the poem. It resonated in the best and worst ways. Being a woman, I have lived my entire life knowing that men will treat my body like their property.
It's amazing, when, after someone is raped, they have enough strength to go to court and explain what happened in the hopes to finding justice. It's never enough to heal, but it's enough to begin the process towards moving forward, knowing that their rapist cannot hurt anyone else.
For a court system to believe the woman is often rare, but to have the rapist serve no time, to not have any punishment is worse than facing the fact that you were raped in the first place.
It is a fear all women think of from the moment they are old enough to realize it's happening.
This book is angering and heartbreaking in the best ways. In the way where you can't stop reading the injustice because it is too real. Because you'd like to continue reading to see and understand the healing, where the characters go next. Because if you were ever in the situation yourself, you want to know that you can get through it as well.
Em Morales has the perfect reaction to the sentence.
I also feel like learning how to use a fucking sword.
What I read was haunting, disgusting and tragically accurate to our current world. But it was beautifully done. I was drawn in immediately by the poem. It resonated in the best and worst ways. Being a woman, I have lived my entire life knowing that men will treat my body like their property.
It's amazing, when, after someone is raped, they have enough strength to go to court and explain what happened in the hopes to finding justice. It's never enough to heal, but it's enough to begin the process towards moving forward, knowing that their rapist cannot hurt anyone else.
For a court system to believe the woman is often rare, but to have the rapist serve no time, to not have any punishment is worse than facing the fact that you were raped in the first place.
It is a fear all women think of from the moment they are old enough to realize it's happening.
This book is angering and heartbreaking in the best ways. In the way where you can't stop reading the injustice because it is too real. Because you'd like to continue reading to see and understand the healing, where the characters go next. Because if you were ever in the situation yourself, you want to know that you can get through it as well.
Em Morales has the perfect reaction to the sentence.
I also feel like learning how to use a fucking sword.