Lydia Allah Ali is an assistant professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a former lawyer, author, and public speaker who has been writing about women and sexual violence since 1995. She was one of the co-founders of Know More, a site that educates people about intimate partner violence and abuse. Her recent memoir is “Fucked: Surviving the Darkest Hours of My Life.” And she is the former executive director of Sexual Assault Policy New York and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Feminist Wire. Follow her on Twitter@drilad.

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The following is an edited transcript of a conversation conducted with her in July.

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