Join Sohaila Abdulali, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape (Myriad 2018), for a discussion on her new book at Porter Square Books, as a part of their March Be the Change event.

Gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai and indignant at the deafening silence on the issue in India, Sohaila wrote an article for a women’s magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later she saw the story go viral in the wake of the fatal 2012 Delhi rape and the global outcry that followed.

Drawing on three decades of grappling with the issue personally and professionally, and on her work with hundreds of other survivors, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape explores what we say and think about rape. She also explores what we don’t say, and asks pertinent questions about who gets raped and who rapes, about consent and desire, about redemption and revenge, and about how we raise our sons. Most importantly, she asks: does rape always have to be a life-defining event, or is it possible to recover joy?

20% of sales from event tickets will be donated to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

Head over to the Porter Square Books website for more information.