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Hello everyone. Today I'll be speaking to Larissa Phillips.

Larissa is an adult writing tutor.

She is the founder of the Volunteer Literacy Project, which is a structured phonics curriculum teaching reading to adults and also producing decodible books for older kids.

Sounds like a very worthwhile and fascinating job.

But today we're going to be talking about a piece that Larissa wrote for

Quilett that appeared in Quilett a couple of weeks ago. It's called Toward Ruin or Recovery and as the subheading

states the main thesis is that the modern feminist response to rape is failing women and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

I'm going to begin by reading a little passage from that piece.

There is an audio version of the entire piece,

which you can find at the Colette site,

I'll link to it in the show notes and also in Quilette narrated so that you can put it into a podcast,

cue it up in a podcast feed to listen to as well.

So this is from a this first part of what I'm going to read is a

quotation from an essay by Katie R, which he wrote in 1993 for New York Times magazine.

We all agree that rape is a terrible thing, but we no longer agree on what rape is.

Today's definition has stretched beyond bruises and knives, threats of death or violence,

to include emotional pressure and the influence of alcohol.

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