Anita Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. After the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Hill became a leading figure in the fight for women's rights and against gender-based violence. She has written for The New York Times and Newsweek, and is a sought-after speaker.

ANNIVERSARY: October 2021 is the 30th anniversary of Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings. Original participants Judge Thomas, Senator Chuck Grassley and President Biden are still in positions of power in government.HIGH PROFILE: Hill is a frontline activist in the ongoing campaign with a regular national speaking schedule including the National Women's Law Center, NAACP-LDF, and Equal Rights Advocates, law firms that represent plaintiffs in landmark cases, and numerous local organizations, and was much sought by the media after during the Kavanaugh hearings.NEWS BREAKS: The book includes new reflections on her original testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, her conversations with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and on Joe Biden's carefully timed and worded apology, and how a President Biden (or any U.S. president) can make up for the harm caused by the Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.A HEROINE FOR A NEW GENERATION: Since #MeToo, Hill's visibility as an activist has only increased. Believing will speak to people across generations.

An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together. NPR

Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books 

From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors.

In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart.

We once thought gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's cultural and endemic, and happens to our acquaintances, colleagues, friends and family members, and it can be physical, emotional and verbal. Women of color experience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street harassment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinary people are particularly vulnerable.
 
Anita Hill draws on her years as a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate, and on the experiences of the thousands of  individuals who have told her their stories, to trace the pipeline of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured, clear, blunt terms, she demonstrates the impact it has on  every aspect of our lives, including our physical and mental wellbeing, housing stability, political participation, economy and community safety, and how our descriptive language undermines progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands that  our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediately.