Resources for Survivors of Assault

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xiii
4. Innocence / Exposure
5. the telling 3
6. No Emergency 4
7. little monster 5
8. Zipper 6
9. Arcadia 7
10. For Lovetta, With Sorrow 9
11. Black Plums 11
12. In the Scheme of Things 13
13. Falling Off a Ladder 14
14. Driving Test 15
15. 649 Sun Row 16
16. Memory, re-sequenced 18
17. Lessons in Womanhood 19
18. Girls Shouldn’t 21
19. Sun, Moon and Thalia 23
20. She Looks for Lions 24
21. Sixteen 25
22. Teenager Robbed 27
23. The Rape of Leda 29
24. Normalized 31
25. Try Me 39
26. Six Minutes of Spring 40
27. The Elephant 41
28. ENDURANCE / PERSISTENCE
29. Night Class 45
30. a death so close 46
31. The Next Day 48
32. A Victim 49
33. Brain Washing 50
34. I don’t like to tell people I was raped 51
35. The Morning After 52
36. Birdman 54
37. Chance Encounter in the Uranium City Hotel 56
38. I Ache 57
39. A Metaphor 58
40. Solitary 59
41. Pulp Non-fiction 60
42. Woods Wolf Girl 61
43. P.O.ed 62
44. A good thing to know 63
45. “What we did not know in 1972. What has changed.” 64
46. Honour Killing: A Glosa 69
47. RAGE / RESISTANCE
48. An Army of Staring Women 73
49. Fuck Ghomeshi 74
50. Five Parts Rape Poem One Part Self-Care 76
51. The power in a name 79
52. A consideration of the bus driver 82
53. The Maid and the Wolf 83
54. The Rape of Lucia 84
55. Pinned, Mounted 85
56. Chrysalis 86
57. Claiming My Brother’s Body 88
58. LXVIII 89
59. When you looked at me did you see me? 90
60. abuse victim 92
61. Not even trees should grow there 93
62. The No Variations 94
63. Name Me After a Fish 95
64. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me 96
65. Molly 97
66. Not Guilty 99
67. Autumn in the East, the Pilot 100
68. The Man Who Studied Love 101
69. Yes, Those Were Crimes of Violence 103
70. Wreaths 105
71. Years Too Late 112
72. SURVIVAL / RECOVERY
73. monarch 115
74. Annabelle 116
75. Novena 2 118
76. Once 119
77. Dinner 120
78. Love and Nintendo 121
79. On sleepless nights 122
80. Calcium Carbonate 123
81. Elements 124
82. One 125
83. To Believe 126
84. Unite 128
85. Acknowledgements 131
86. Resources for Survivors of Assault 133
87. Contributors 137