When watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in 2018, author Pagan Kennedy began reflecting on her own experience of sexual assault as a child, perpetrated by a neighborhood boy—one who grew up to become yet another high-powered man in Washington. With the memory in the forefront of her mind and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on screen, she catalogued in her head the number of inventions that made sexual assault easier for perpetrators to commit: driver’s side car door locks, sedative drugs, and so on. As far as anything invented to defend targets of such violence, the first thing Kennedy could think of was the rape kit.

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