Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
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This project began 20 years ago, when I was a volunteer and staff person at Women Organized Against Rape in Philadelphia. I learned a lot working there: about courage and fear, about hurt and survival, about differences and alliances, about speaking truth to power and using power to speak truth. I have tried to keep those lessons in mind through graduate school, two academic jobs, and this project—which at times seemed too daunting and dispiriting to finish. The fact that it is finished is due in large part to the support of many people in many places over the last two decades—so many that I can’t begin to acknowledge them all here.
I owe my most significant debt, and my deepest gratitude, to the advocates who participated in this project. This book would not have been possible without their unstinting generosity of time and spirit, steadfast commitment to work that is often marginalized and unrecognized in their communities, willingness to share victories and frustrations, their righteous anger and their insistence on finding hope, joy, and even hilarity in this difficult work. When presenting some of this work to a group of advocates, one woman looked at me and said, “We’ve lived these stories that you’re telling.” While the book necessarily deals in broad strokes and generalities, my hope is that other advocates across the country recognize these stories as ones they and the survivors they work with have lived, and that telling these stories might help rape crisis centers, state coordinating coalitions, communities, and policymakers develop more effective and compassionate responses to sexual violence.
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