Crying Wolf
Ashley Raskovsky
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Melanie Solar
, Hannah Ruby
, Dani Kat
, Paris Semansky
, Andrea Gillespie
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Jude Castillo
, Mary Therrien
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Chantal Comeau
, Sandra Perry
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Griffin Baker
, Laurie Burns
, Deana Bueley
, Kate Rutter
, Marjorie Roy
, Agnes Marshall
, Kim Cappellina
, KRISTINA WHITFORD
, Lindsay Burns
, Shawna Moodie
, Debra Fisher
, Melissa Kohlman
, Joe Mitchell
, Grace Novack
, Jen Batler
, Trish Bowering
, Joshua Lewis
, Crystal Inwood
, Paula Ritchie
, Kirsten Lyon
, Margaret McKay
, Darlene Jilks
, Anne Simonot
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Amanda Pearson
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rhona Brinkman
, Carl Scott
, Margaret Anglin
, Mary Lester
, Randi Ann Doll
, Lynn Andrews
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Janice Cournoyer
, Paula Adam
, tom stormonth
, Karen Nordrum
, Deb Philippon
, Robert Hykawy
, Hoda Montazeri
, Karen Kendrick
, Ellen Clarke
, Benita Hartwell
, diana kirkwood
, Pat Johnston
, Ken Gilmour
, Kailey Gallant
, C. Ray
, Mary Danieli
, Andrea Pole
, Jilanna Eagles
, Shayla Bradley
, Reilly Robson
, Melissa Poremba
, Luciana Erregue
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Soni Sharma
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It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.
After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.
In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bisexuality. Societal conditioning of acceptable female sexuality silenced her to a point of despair, leading to addiction and even attempted suicide. It was through the act of writing that she began to heal.
Crying Wolf is a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities. Boudreau heralds a new era for others dismissed for "crying wolf." After all, women prevailing to change society for others is also a tale as old as time.
