Jamie Hood

There is something that can, I think, be quite dangerous about that, that we're under this responsibility to offer, say, the worst things that happened to us up to the world for scrutiny. I don't know what the solution is. I dream of rehabilitative justice, but I don't exactly always know what that looks like in practice.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think like a more honest and deeper and more rigorous conversation about the systemic indoctrination of people into sexual violence feels like certainly like one of the pathways toward rectifying, I guess, the imbalance. Yeah, I think that's a really smart point. I think, you know, suggesting that we understand it in a structural way and again, not as simply individual stories.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think like a more honest and deeper and more rigorous conversation about the systemic indoctrination of people into sexual violence feels like certainly like one of the pathways toward rectifying, I guess, the imbalance. Yeah, I think that's a really smart point. I think, you know, suggesting that we understand it in a structural way and again, not as simply individual stories.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think like a more honest and deeper and more rigorous conversation about the systemic indoctrination of people into sexual violence feels like certainly like one of the pathways toward rectifying, I guess, the imbalance. Yeah, I think that's a really smart point. I think, you know, suggesting that we understand it in a structural way and again, not as simply individual stories.

I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. I think that the meaning that I attempted to make out of the book was to find other things about my life that were worth living. Stick around.

I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. I think that the meaning that I attempted to make out of the book was to find other things about my life that were worth living. Stick around.

I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. I think that the meaning that I attempted to make out of the book was to find other things about my life that were worth living. Stick around.

I don't think that I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. And the book is a long project in sort of intellectualizing or articulating or contextualizing how sexual violence operates sort of systemically, but also in relation to like my personal experiences with it. But in terms of like the event of being raped, right, like that is a violation that degrades the body.

I don't think that I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. And the book is a long project in sort of intellectualizing or articulating or contextualizing how sexual violence operates sort of systemically, but also in relation to like my personal experiences with it. But in terms of like the event of being raped, right, like that is a violation that degrades the body.

I don't think that I do find rape to be like functionally meaningless. And the book is a long project in sort of intellectualizing or articulating or contextualizing how sexual violence operates sort of systemically, but also in relation to like my personal experiences with it. But in terms of like the event of being raped, right, like that is a violation that degrades the body.

It degrades the person to the point of like becoming inhuman. And my personal experience Sense of it and how I experienced it. Like I say in the quote, you know, like it taught me to think of myself as meat, right? The thing that I wanted to figure out was, like, how do I make meaning beyond that?

It degrades the person to the point of like becoming inhuman. And my personal experience Sense of it and how I experienced it. Like I say in the quote, you know, like it taught me to think of myself as meat, right? The thing that I wanted to figure out was, like, how do I make meaning beyond that?

It degrades the person to the point of like becoming inhuman. And my personal experience Sense of it and how I experienced it. Like I say in the quote, you know, like it taught me to think of myself as meat, right? The thing that I wanted to figure out was, like, how do I make meaning beyond that?

Because I think that I allowed the meaninglessness of having been raped to contaminate the rest of my life. And to feel as if your personhood is not valuable, you know, to feel that you are inhuman, that you are exactly as rotted as, like, the event of being raped made you feel. I think that I did feel that my life was meaningless. I thought that I...

Because I think that I allowed the meaninglessness of having been raped to contaminate the rest of my life. And to feel as if your personhood is not valuable, you know, to feel that you are inhuman, that you are exactly as rotted as, like, the event of being raped made you feel. I think that I did feel that my life was meaningless. I thought that I...

Because I think that I allowed the meaninglessness of having been raped to contaminate the rest of my life. And to feel as if your personhood is not valuable, you know, to feel that you are inhuman, that you are exactly as rotted as, like, the event of being raped made you feel. I think that I did feel that my life was meaningless. I thought that I...

was going to keep getting raped because this was, you know, like I was victimized several times by discontinuous assailants. And, you know, the sort of recursivity of that made me feel that that was the purpose of my life in some important way, which was very difficult. What I wanted to do was to have a life beyond the trauma, you know, and that's, I think, maybe like the sort of

was going to keep getting raped because this was, you know, like I was victimized several times by discontinuous assailants. And, you know, the sort of recursivity of that made me feel that that was the purpose of my life in some important way, which was very difficult. What I wanted to do was to have a life beyond the trauma, you know, and that's, I think, maybe like the sort of

was going to keep getting raped because this was, you know, like I was victimized several times by discontinuous assailants. And, you know, the sort of recursivity of that made me feel that that was the purpose of my life in some important way, which was very difficult. What I wanted to do was to have a life beyond the trauma, you know, and that's, I think, maybe like the sort of

where I do feel cliche or conventional. You know, like, I think that I was very resistant to the conventional trauma memoir arc. But there is something that felt very healing about it, about writing the book, about coming to terms with these experiences, about being in therapy over them. You know, like, I was able to say, like, oh, actually, like, I have so much to offer the world.