Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Our Word Alone Jessica Valenti 1
How Bertha Pappenheim Cured Herself Moira Donegan 7
Gossip Is an English Word 500+ Years of #MeToo in Indian Country Sarah Deer Bonnie Clairmont 15
The Room Where It Happened Dahlia Lithwick 25
Listening Will Never Be Enough Katherine Cross 35
He's Unmarked, She's Marked Julia Serano 51
"Believe Me" Means Believing That Black Women Are People Soraya Nadia McDonald 64
We Belong Everywhere Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley 77
Nowhere Left to Go: Misogyny and Belief on the Left Sady Doyle 83
Constructing the Future: The Believe Me Internet Soraya Chemaly 93
Yeah, You Like That, Don't You? The Unnecessary Pleasures of Sexual Labor Tina Horn 111
Can BDSM Save Us? Centering Enthusiastic Consent in Queer Worlds Sassafras Lowrey 124
Clocked Matt Lubchansky 133
Do Not Pet Anuradha Bhagwati 135
The Power of Survivor-Defined Justice Stacy Malone, ESQ. 150
Before #MeToo: Black Women in the Anti-Rape Movement in Washington, DC, in the 1970s Loretta J. Ross 162
Believe You, Como Eres Andrea L. Pino-Silva 177
Reproductive Justice: Sacred Work, Sacred Journey Cherisse Scott 187
The Spark to Change Tahir Duckett 197
She Can't Breathe Jamil Smith 209
Taking the Employer High Road to Address Sexual Harassment Mónica Ramírez 218
Big Little Lies Samantha Irby 232
Innocent in the Face: A Conversation with Tatiana Maslany Jaclyn Friedman 240
When Gender Is Weaponized, Peace Depends on Believing Survivors Yifat Susskind Yanar Mohammed 255
Silenced and Doubted: How the US Immigration System Fails Central American Women Anna-Catherine Brigida 267
Survivorship Is Leadership: Building a Future for New Possibilities and Power Sabrina Hersi Issa 278
Survivor Love Letter Tani Ikeda 291
The Cost of Disbelieving Jaclyn Friedman 299