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The story of Pieper Lewis

This is the mid-week edition of Men Yell at Me, a newsletter about the places our personhood and politics meet.

On June 1, 2020, Pieper Lewis, then only 15 years old, stabbed and killed Zachary Brooks, the man she said raped her. The Des Moines Register reported, “Lewis, who was initially charged with first-degree murder after her arrest on June 2, 2020…