![]() ![]() Survivors of sexual assault have seen their public platform grow in recent years-most notably through the #MeToo campaign ignited by Tarana Burke- but too many young people are still left out of the conversation. ![]() Though such conversations have evolved in the years since speak was published, much remains stagnant Anderson notes that it’s this still-crucial need for more dialogue and progress that inspired her to return to the topic. SHOUT weaves stories about formative experiences with meditations on sexual violence, boundaries, and gender dynamics to paint a clear and poignant picture of the insidiousness of rape culture and the lessons it teaches us. ![]() Nearly two decades later, Anderson is back with SHOUT, a memoir in free verse that returns to her own experience but adds those of the innumerable readers who reached out after reading speak. In 1999, author Laurie Halse Anderson told the story of her sexual assault in her radical, bestselling young-adult novel speak, and in doing so gave a generation of teens and young adults a vocabulary for consent and rape. SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson (Photo credit: Viking Books for Young Readers) ![]()
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