New York Magazine brings together 35 Bill Cosby accusers for powerful cover

Date
27 July 2015
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New York Magazine: July 27 cover

New York Magazine has put 35 of of the 46 women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault on the cover of its most recent issue. Inside are interviews and portraits of the “Unwelcome Sisterhood” shot by Amanda Demme. Alongside senior editor Noreen Malone’s essay, the magazine has published individual accounts of the womens’ stories and six video interviews online.

“The group of women Cosby allegedly assaulted functions almost as a longitudinal study – both for how an individual woman, on her own, deals with such trauma over the decades and for how the culture at large has grappled with rape over the same time period,” the magazine writes.

The cover and its accompanying feature – both online and in print – finally puts a sea of faces to the harrowing string of accusations that have continued to surface, putting an end to the relative anonymity of these women whose stories all share remarkable similarity.

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