Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Audiobook (Free)

Edited and with an introduction created and read by Roxane Homosexual, the brand new York Moments best-selling and deeply much loved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.

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In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and best-selling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published parts that address what it means to reside in a world where women need to gauge the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where these are ‘routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied’ for speaking out. Efforts include essays from established and up-and-coming writers, performers, and critics, including actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union and authors Amy Jo Uses up, Lyz Lenz, and Claire Schwartz.

Covering an array of topics and encounters, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation, this collection is certainly often deeply personal and it is always unflinchingly honest. Like Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, Not really That Bad will resonate with every listener, stating ‘something in totality that we cannot say by itself.’

Searing and heartbreakingly candid, this provocative collection both displays the globe we reside in and will be offering a contact to hands insisting that ‘not that poor’ must no longer be sufficient.

Narrators include: Roxane Homosexual, Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Amy Jo Burns up, Lyz Lenz, Claire Schwartz, Aubrey Hirsch, Jill Christman, Lynn Melnick, Brandon Taylor, Emma Smith-Stevens, A.J. McKenna, Lisa Mecham, Vanessa Mártir, xTx, Sophie Mayer, Nora Salem, V.L. Look for, Michelle Chen, Liz Rosema, Anthony Frame, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Miriam Zoila Pérez, Zoe Medeiros, Sharisse Tracey, Stacey May Fowles, Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes, Meredith Talusan, Nicole Boyce, and Elissa Bassist.