Whoa! A little long and repetitive but listened to the audiobook that’s on Libby through Glasgow Libraries which worked really well.

There are a few points where the argument is a little stretched out and laboured - e.g. the the parts which were meant to be “hopeful” didn’t always convince me and I would actually love a slightly wider range of POVs to explore the institutional rigidity a bit more in-depth (tho I can see why this was not chosen to be the place for it) but overall it captures so much so well and makes for an intriguing albeit often times heavy read/listen. 

Honestly it was a great book that detailed sexual and sexualized violence in academia/in the workplace. I know that there is power in it’s raw nature. But because of this, it was very difficult for me to read at times. I think I skipped around an hour of the 11.5 hour audiboook and disassociated for about 2 hours of it. I don’t know that I am “better”/“stronger” of having read this book emotionally, which I guess is okay. Maybe it u have been better to read this at a different time in my life, I don’t know. And this exact issue is touched on in the conclusion. This book did definitely felt reassuraning in telling us that the violence we face is real, institutional and systemic; and seemingly diverse and includive institutions are not immune either. It also reminded me the importance and value of complaining, not only after sexual assault but on the face of discrimination, abuse and violence in general. So I appreciated that as well. Conversations around doors (literal doors) was interesting, but also a bit repetitive and redundant.

the work put into this book is admirable and reading it was difficult.
i read it for university so i had to read all of it and take notes but it is really important to know this and it felt affirming too because i could recognise these structres in my own life. 
would definitely recommend university students and staff should read this book