The author recounts a time where she was a small child, and a shopkeeper picked her up, ostensibly to help her see over the walls of a tall bin, but in actuality, he rubbed her body against his as he picked her up and put her down. In another childhood memory, a classmate steals the author's glasses and disrobes in front of her. As an adult, while she is moving to a new apartment, the man hired to help her offers to waive the moving fee if she'd "just be quiet and stand still for a minute" while he masturbates near or on her. A friend of the author's dates a man who later traffics her into forced sex work. She later escapes. Mention of homophobic rape by Black men against Black lesbians with the intent to "take them down a peg or two." The author describes a boss she had who would call her into her office to watch her pick up a pencil. The author’s friend runs away from home after being sexually abused by her father. This friend later commits suicide.