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"What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit from reading." - Jill SolowayIn the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest - and ultimately hopeful - examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a seventeen-year-old in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for an Indian women's magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims.