Discussed in this essay:

I Am Evidence, directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir. HBO, 2018. 86 minutes.

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay. Harper Perennial. 368 pages. $16.99.

Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal, edited by Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens. Rutgers University Press. 270 pages. $34.95.

all this can be yours, by Isobel O’Hare. University of Hell Press. 190 pages. $30.

Still from I Am Evidence. Courtesy HBO

The most clarifying moment in I Am Evidence, HBO’s new documentary about how rape is investigated in the United States, occurs when…