Awareness surrounding the epidemic of rape grew dramatically during Second Wave Feminism, as poets and writers began to share their lived experiences, and then found support from a community of women that respected and valued said stories. In \u201cPoem About My Rights,\u201d by June Jordan, the narrator discusses her identity as a woman and how that identity and its relation to rape have shaped how she views herself. Jordan emphasizes this in the lines, \u201cI am the history of rape \/ I am the history of the rejection of who I am \/ I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of \/ myself\u201d (77-80). This poem epitomizes women\u2019s growth in the expression of their emotions about rape, ranging from self-destructive undertones of self-blame in the beginning to a realization that \u201cI am not wrong: Wrong is not my name \/ My name is my own my own my own\u201d (Jordan 109-110). The self-destructive undertones that pervade the beginning of the poem are apparent in the fact that the narrator initially believes that her identity is what hinders her self-expression and freeing actions. The actuality of the matter is that the despicable actions of men are what warrant feelings within women that they are at fault for what happens to them.<\/p>\n