Roxane Gay 
Not That Bad 
Dispatches from Rape Culture

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.

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In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence and aggression they face, and where sexual-abuse survivors are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied' for speaking out.
Highlighting the stories of well-known actors, writers and experts, as well as new voices being published for the first time, Not That Bad covers a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation and street harrassment.
Often deeply personal and always unflinchingly honest, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that 'not that bad' must no longer be good enough.

About the author

Roxane Gay is the author of the
New York Times bestsellers
Bad Feminist and
Hunger, the novel
An Untamed State, and the short story collections
Difficult Women and
Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the
New York Times, she has also written for
Time, the
Los Angeles Times,
The Nation,
The Rumpus and
Salon, amongst others. She is the author of
World of Wakanda for Marvel. She lives in Los Angeles.