In Lenny Letter, Jessica Knoll writes that the events in her best-selling novel happened to her.
Ive come to a simple, powerful revelation: everyone is calling it rape now, she wrote.
Theres no reason to cover my head.
Theres no reason I shouldnt say what I know.
From then on, I submitted to my assigned narrative, she wrote.
What was the point in raising my voice when all it got me was my own lonely echo?
In introducing Knolls piece, Dunham wrote that her first reaction to reading the essay was gratitude.
The experience of reading this piece was a bittersweet one for me.
In telling her own story, Jessica makes way for so many still untold.
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