My debut SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ALI GREENLEAF book is out today. It's about rape culture, it's about friendship, it's about teen girls finding and using their voices after trauma. Thank you Ali and Blythe for letting me tell your stories. #MeToo https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593114117

When I first wrote ALI as a short story in college, I didn't even connect to it. I would literally tell people: "This isn't about me." it took me years to connect to the parts that were me, to the parts of our culture that had infiltrated me, to what I had witnessed.

@MichaelaCoel said she writes to disassociate from something very painful, and that she also writes to get closer to it. However trauma and your understanding of trauma looks to you, take your time with your process. #TW If you get stuck reading my book, stop reading.

One can't do this kind of book alone. And it took me a long time to do it the way that the story needed to be told. So I felt safe. So readers felt safe. Thank you to the @RazorbillBooks team for that, and my editor @JulieARosenberg who broached editing this book like a shrink.

Lastly, high school girls are most susceptible to sexual assault and sexual violence. We have to be so empathetic to them about all of the shit they go through. And I'm so god damn proud to be a young adult author. If you need to talk: @RAINN has a 24/7 hotline 800-656-HOPE

I tagged her in the first post of this thread, but all of the BEAUTIFUL cards and stickers that I used behind my book are from the lovely @metoomanyvoices who makes amazing consent art and workbooks for survivors. You can find her here: https://www.metoomanyvoices.com/