Even If You're Broken

About this book

Too many times, women are told to move on.What happens to your body, your sense of self, and your mental health when the world repeatedly tells you that your experience doesn't count?Even If You're Broken is Katie Rose Pryal's exploration of that question, written from the inside. A bipolar-autistic author and law professor, Pryal has spent years writing about what it means to move through the world in a body that others feel entitled to doubt, dismiss, abuse, and assault. She puts mental health and neurodiversity at the center of conversations that usually leave them out.Moving between literary memoir and cultural criticism, the book travels from the ways trauma reshapes a life, to the legal and institutional failures that compound it, to the particular vulnerabilities of neurodivergent people navigating a world not designed for them. It is for those who have struggled with bodily autonomy and for those who love and support them.**Winner of the IPPY GOLD Medal in Women's Issues**