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Death, Sex & Money

Gabrielle Union Is Fed Up

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A conversation about reclaiming your body after sexual assault. Send us your stories about the times you've been most aware of your class and how class differences have impacted your relationships. Send voice memos and emails to class@deathsexmoney.org Stay in the loop and subscribe to our weekly email newsletter! Every Wednesday we'll send you our favorites from the audio world, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you feel like you have been harassed, if you feel like you have been violated, if you have been grabbed, if you have been raped, if you've been assaulted, and you feel comfortable, on the count of three, let's say me two together.

0:15.0

One, two, three.

0:18.0

Me too.

0:20.0

This is it's supposed to make me

0:26.0

This is death sex and money They don't get it. I'm dead the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot is it supposed to make me fall in love with you or

0:33.6

back into bed with you or what and need to talk about more. You boys won that

0:39.1

money game didn't you? I'm Aniseo. It didn't take revelations about Harvey Weinstein to get actor Gabriel Union to talk about sexual assault.

0:50.0

This is real. We are real.

0:52.7

Gabriel wrote last year in the LA Times.

0:55.8

She was starring in the movie Birth of a Nation,

0:58.2

and new details had emerged about the rape case

1:00.8

against Nate Parker, the movie's writer and director.

1:04.0

Gabriel confronted the news head on.

1:06.6

She wrote, sexual violence happens more often than anyone can imagine.

1:11.4

And if the stories around this film do not prove and emphasize this

1:14.8

then I don't know what does. Gabrielle described how she was raped when she was

1:19.9

19 by a man who came into the Payless Shoe Store where she was working.

1:25.1

Gabriel writes about recovering from the trauma of sexual violence in a new

1:30.3

collection of essays. It's called We're Gonna Need More Wine. She also describes

1:35.9

breaking out in movies like Bring It On, Getting Divorced in her mid-30s, and raising a family

1:41.2

with her second husband,

1:42.5

NBA star Duane Wade.

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