Speak Up and Fight: A survivor's fight for healing, justice, and the power to be heard.

For as long as I can remember, I've been a fighter.

Before she reached her eighteenth birthday, Taekwondo champion Kaylynne Venn had experienced 23 emergency room visits, 11 nights in hospital beds, and over 10 attempts to escape the pain of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Raped by a classmate in her first year of high school, she spent her five years in survival mode, fighting to keep afloat in a sea of shame and silence.

In her powerful memoir, Speak Up and Fight, she shows how she bro...