Thick: and Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom 
Book
Anthology
Non-fiction
Book
Anthology
Non-fiction
Updated: 15 March 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned in passing (in discussion and/or implied)
Sexual harassment (e.g. verbal or non-consensual touching/grabbing)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sexual abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape strongly implied/details surrounding a rape discussed in detail (i.e. the events before/after)
Detailed/vivid description of rape

Description

The author references the following: receiving street harassment, getting hit on at a bar, her suspicion that her mother was sexually abused as a child, sexual violence in slavery, rape apologism, the #MeToo movement, adultification of Black girls, general statistics on sexual violence in families; and sexual assault allegations against R. Kelly, Charlemagne Tha God, and Bill Cosby. Although these topics come up throughout the book, the chapter that focuses most on sexual violence is “Black Girlhood, Interrupted.”

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