What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is part memoir, part research, part reportage, in which Abdulali shares her experience of being gang Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian survivor to speak out about rape publicly. Abdulali, who was gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai, had shared her account through a woman’s magazine, questioning about conversations of rape and perceptions about rape survivors. Three decades later, in the wake of the Nirbhaya rape case, her story from the magazine got viral and created a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a seventeen-year-old in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for an Indian women’s magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later her story went viral in the wake of the fatal gang rape in Delhi and the global outcry that followed.
Sohaila Abdulali wants us to pay attention to what we've been missing when we talk about rape, meaning everything from how we fail to address rape as a global crisis to how survivors experience PTSD at the dentist. Garu Student Union of Bangladesh demanding the arrest of a rapist accused of raping an indigenous girl, Ap. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. Sohaila Abdulali. Myriad Editions, - Social Science - pages. 2 Reviews. Thoughtful, provocative and intelligent, this game-changing book looks at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor and activist. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape; Sohaila Abdulali, Viking/ Penguin, ₹ Our code of editorial values. Related Articles Close X. When Sita speaks for herself.
Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a seventeen-year-old in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for an Indian women’s magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later her story went viral in the wake of the fatal gang rape in Delhi and the global outcry that followed. After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women’s magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the fatal gang-rape in New Delhi, prompting her to write a New York Times op-ed about healing from rape that was widely circulated. In her powerful but accessibly written new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, Sohaila Abdulali explores how cultures around the world handle rape. She approaches this intimate, sinister type of violence with a decidedly global viewpoint, delving into how both individuals and governments treat their victims, as well as how they navigate the nuances of sexual consent.
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