2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay Archives

Healing Through Storytelling by Melissa Zook

The practice of medicine is based on the physician’s ability to gather story from the patient. Our story is our human identity and our humanity. It is also the ...

10 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Grief/Health/Loss/Memoir/#MeToo/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture/#SAAM/trauma/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay

Smeared by Rachel Carson

"Did you know some hospitals have an entire department dedicated to rape victims?"

5 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Girls & Women/Loss/Memoir/#MeToo/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture/The Life/trauma/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay

Blowjobs by F. M. Walsh

We avoid their touch by pissing our pants on purpose. Boys don’t want to fondle girls who piss their pants. Fucking babies. We hide. We find a way out of the wo...

7 Minute Read/Black Memoirs Matter/Girls & Women/Literature/Loss/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay

Relax by Katharine Bost

I want to shout that I had only had one beer. I want to jump back in the cab and pray that the driver takes me home even though I don’t have any cash for him. B...

5 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Literature/#MeToo/nonfiction/On Memory/#SAAM/Society/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay

Avocado by Sophie Trevitt

I am eight. I am eight, and I am an avocado in a flock of magpies and I want to be a magpie so badly that it makes my fingers curl. I want to know what it feels...