Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April 2026 marks the official 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). The mission of the month is to raise

public awareness about sexual violence and educate communities on how to prevent it.

Updated April 1, 2026
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Not that bad Dispatches from Rape Culture.
Gay, Roxane.
Ebook
New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue,...
Missoula : rape and the justice system in a college town
Krakauer, Jon
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . "A devastating expose of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused." -Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town,...
Believing : our thirty-year journey to end gender violence
Hill, Anita
Ebook
Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, offering insights into its roots, and paths to creating change. We once thought gender-based violence - from casual harassment to rape and murder - was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's...
Believing our thirty-year journey to end gender violence
Hill, Anita
Ebook
Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, offering insights into its roots, and paths to creating change. We once thought gender-based violence - from casual harassment to rape and murder - was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's...

Large Print edition.

Black box :
ItOo, Shiori,
Ebook
The basis for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries, this riveting, sobering memoir chronicles one woman's struggle for justice, calling for change to ensure future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated. In...
Know my name A Memoir.
Miller, Chanel.
Ebook
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer,...
The secret history of the rape kit :
Kennedy, Pagan,
Ebook
Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool-a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity. "Astonishing . . ....
The boundaries of her body :
Rowland, Debran.
Ebook
Chicago-based writer, artist, and civil rights attorney Rowland covers the period from the 1600's to the early 1900s in the first section, then examines developments in the 20th century in a long second section. Final sections look at the politics of female adolescence and violence and women, mainly...
Things we didn't talk about when I was a girl :
Vanasco, Jeannie,
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice and Best Book of the Year at TIME, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, and Electric Literature Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a...
On violence and on violence against women /
Rose, Jacqueline,
Paper Book
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the...
Hollywood ending Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence
Auletta, Ken
Ebook
A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein--how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood and media power game for The New Yorker for...
She said Breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement.
Kantor, Jodi
Ebook
The instant New York Times bestseller. "An instant classic of investigative journalism...'All the President's Men' for the Me Too era." -- Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein...

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