New in the Turtle Talk Bookshelf — Sarah Deer’s “The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America”

Highly, highly recommended.

Here is the website.

Sarah Deer Book

Here is the blurb:

How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change

The Beginning and End of Rape makes available the powerful writings in which Sarah Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. These essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued, left unprotected, and hurt.