Alt Lit and Rape Culture - Table of Contents

The Context: In late September, Sophia Katz wrote an essay detailing her sexual assault by "Stan." Soon thereafter, "Stan's" former roommate Sarah Jean Alexander read that essay, recognized Stan as Stephen Tully Dierks, and asked Katz's permission to out him as the rapist at the center of her essay. Katz's essay was the first domino to fall. More allegations and charges of assault, abuse and rape felled other influential figures in the scene, most prominent among them Tao Lin--and those allegations resurfaced previous claims of rape and assault against Steven Trull/Janey Smith (and others) and Gregory Sherl. Two months later, with barrels of ink spilled all over the internet, it seems fair to say that alt lit is dead. For further background about this series--and more links--read the original call for submissions. 

Alt Lit and Rape Culture - Table of Contents

Introduction: A Warning Before We Begin by series curator Sarah B. Boyle

Essays

The Intellectual Class of Poetry - Lisa Cattrone

Separation of Art and Hate - Stacia M. Fleegal

The Male Literary Canon is Fired - Sonya Vatomsky

Suffering the Inheritance of Cultural Narratives - Andrea Baker

The Sincere Pose - Sarah B. Boyle

Rape as Manifold - D. Dragonetti

What We Talk about When We Talk About Rape Culture - Sam Cohen

This Will I Now Sing Deftly - Kia Groom

Poems

Even Though We Were Vegetarian - by Shevaun Brannigan

Good Girls' Belief System and others - by Margaret Bashaar

testimony (the first apocalypse) - Marty McConnell

XXXIV - Sonnet L'Abbé

Service - Chelsea Carter

Literature Roundup

Rape Culture Roundtable, featuring: Sarah B. Boyle, Sarah Certa, Jos Charles, Kat Dixon, D. Dragonetti, Kia Groom, Eunsong Kim, and Alexandra Naughton

Part 1: Alt Lit Destroys Itself

Part 2: A Writers' and Editors' Guide to Dismantling Rape Culture

More Links for Further Reading

Contextualizing the Assaults in the Alt Lit Community

Smart People Writing Elsewhere