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With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever to share real experiences and hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century. Punk, pressure, politics, people - from working class experience to racial divides in Trump's America, being a child of immigrants, to sexual assault, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, identity, family, finding a voice online, role models and more, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Zeba Talkhani, Chitra Ramaswamy are just a few of the incredible women who share their experience here. Keep telling your stories and tell them loud.
Nasty Women edition by 404 Ink Politics Social Sciences eBooks
Nasty Women was a project on Kickstarter that ran through January 2017 after commissioning over 20 stories from women on both sides of the Atlantic in the last few weeks of 2016. They’re aiming for a release date to fall on the 8th March, International Women’s Day, 2017 and are well on their way to meeting that goal.The contributors are:
Alice Tarbuck, Becca Inglis, Belle Owen, Chitra Ramaswamy, Christina Neuwirth, Claire Heuchan, Elise Hines, Jen McGregor, Joelle Owusu, Jona Kottler, Kaite Welsh, Katie Muriel, Kristy Diaz, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! (in conversation with Sasha de Buyl-Pisco), Laura Lam, Laura Waddell, Mel Reeve, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Ren Aldridge of Petrol Girls, Rowan C. Clarke, Sim Bajwa, and Zeba Talkhani.
From them we have a collection of essays from these women who share their experiences over a variety of topics. Taken from the blurb; ‘From working class experience to racial divides in Trump’s America, being a child of immigrants, to sexual assault, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, identity, family, finding a voice online, role models and more, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Zeba Talkhani, Chitra Ramaswamy are just a few of the incredible women who share their experience here.’
I pledged for this project instantly because I adore the writing of Laura Lam and skipped straight to her essay to start off with. It’s a devastating story about the women in her family – how her mother grew up under the frightening rule of her mother, and the mother before her. It looks at what was considered the norm of that time, the stigma associated with mental health, and how it continues through the generations if not acted on with determination. It also speaks of a book Lam is writing with her mother that sounds like it’ll be a hard but worthwhile read – I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Onto the other essays. Not all are included in this review edition – reading those will have to wait until International Woman’s Day – but each and every one so far are as poignant and captivating as Lam’s was. The first piece by Katie Muriel is endlessly quotable in regards to the current political rumblings in America – ‘Sometimes, however, peace has to take a holiday. Sometimes, there are battles to be fought.‘ It speaks of how politics can divide a family, and how awful some people can decide they have the right to be, even to their own family members.
The next essay discusses what it’s like to be a Black woman from Glasgow, and what this results in – white people feeling they can tough her hair as if she’s from a petting zoo, or people asking increasingly incredulous questions about where she’s really from, treading delicately as if they could be misunderstood as being racist. Except it is racist. Full stop.
Jen McGregor’s essay really resonated with me, as a person who’s constantly being told by doctors that I can’t make a decision about my own body when it comes to procreation. We need more stories like McGregor’s – we need more discussion about how we can barely decide things for ourselves and even then with medical guidance, tiny decisions can have such massive ramifications. McGregor’s health issues are severe and yet it still takes until she’s 31 until she gets the surgery she knew she wanted from a much younger age. I’ve recently turned 30, and I’m currently on a waitlist for the same surgery and even without the added bonus of osteopenia I can’t wait to finally gain the the control and serenity over my body I’ve always wanted. I too have been told that even when I’m in my 30s, surgeons may refuse the referral until I have a husband who can confirm he too doesn’t want children. Which makes me so mad I can’t even formulate an apt sentence. It’s ridiculous.
I won’t go through all of the essays as I’ve given more than enough away. I highly recommend this book as it’s easy reading – or at least easy for such hard topics. There’s trigger warnings, and the essays are written in such a warm way as if we are allies (and I hope we all are!) and they’re sharing a story between friends. United we stand, and all that. This is an important book, and I’m so glad it exists. So many of us reading will finally think ‘oh, I’m not the only one.’
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Nasty Women edition by 404 Ink Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
I see myself as a loving, tolerant liberal who takes the time to listen to the points of view of others. But actually reading this amazing book made me realise how little time I've spent in the past actually LISTENING to the stories of people from all sorts of different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, economic and social groups, and from the LGBTQ+ community.
This opened my eyes to so many things I was ignorant of and made me feel even more tolerant and loving, coming out of it. It also opened my eyes to injustices in the world I wasn't even aware of, but ones I will now take more notice of and hopefully help fight against.
All of the contributors to this book are fantastic writers with strong voices and even stronger resolve. A brilliant book and I hope 404 Ink continues to produce such works. Books like this are sorely needed.
With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their experiences. We must hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century.
People, politics, pressure, punk - From working class experience to racial divides in Trump’s America, being a child of immigrants, to sexual assault, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, identity, family, finding a voice online, role models and more, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Zeba Talkhani, Chitra Ramaswamy are just a few of the incredible women who share their experience here.
Keep telling your stories, and tell them loud. (via Goodreads)
I received an eARC from Netgalley, courtesy of the publisher, 404 Ink, in exchange for an honest review.
I reviewed the Radical Hope Anthology written by US authors of all walks of life in response to November 8's results. The Nasty Women collection is the un-related UK response to the same events, and it was good.
Content notes for suicide and sexual assault were included in the title header for the applicable stories, which I thought was a great way to do it. I know there's been some discussion about the best way to do this, but I liked the way this was laid out. You couldn't read the title of the piece without seeing that there was a content warning.
“Names” by Nadine Aisha Jassat spoke incredibly clearly to me. I have had four people in my life pronounce my name correctly outside of my immediate family. Even some of my aunts and uncles cannot pronounce my name, or spell it correctly. I’ve turned it into a conversation point and a bit of a joke, but I definitely judge whether people are worth hanging out with by how long it takes them to learn my name.
I loved the footnotes that went into this collection. If one of these concepts was confusing, or you wanted to learn more about it, you could easily find out where to get more of it. I’m not sure how accessible the sources are, because a lot of them are UK academic sources, but they are clearly labelled.
However, some of these articles got incredibly academic, which kind of dragged the collection down for me, personally. I found myself skimming some of the heavier essays, which wasn't great, considering I'm pretty much the intended audience for this collection.
That being said, I loved a lot of the essays in this collection, and would definitely recommend it to people who loved Radical Hope. Nasty Women was a three star read for me, though some of the individual essays were five if they were on their own. You can pick up a copy on !
three stars
“I know there will be many bumps in the road ahead. I know that I may not have gone through the worst that will be thrown at me, and I know I have many choices ahead of me. Choosing to tell my story was just one of them.” - Rowan C. Clarke in “Choices”
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The book Nasty Woman consists of a collection of essays from women that share their stories, their fears, and their passions. Readers learn about sexual assault, familial femininity, shame, immigration, finding one’s voice in online spheres, and more. I was truly amazed at how a book could profoundly touch on so many important topics in only 240 pages.
The group of authors brought together in this anthology is diverse and incredibly intelligent. Each author brought something unique to the book, and I know that I’ll be following many of their careers now that I’ve finished the book.
I’m not sure how else to review this book, except to urge you all to go pick up a copy. Your life will be changed for the better– I know mine was.
5 STARS!
PS. Huge shoutout to the publisher for providing me with a digital copy of this book for review via NetGalley.
Nasty Women was a project on Kickstarter that ran through January 2017 after commissioning over 20 stories from women on both sides of the Atlantic in the last few weeks of 2016. They’re aiming for a release date to fall on the 8th March, International Women’s Day, 2017 and are well on their way to meeting that goal.
The contributors are
Alice Tarbuck, Becca Inglis, Belle Owen, Chitra Ramaswamy, Christina Neuwirth, Claire Heuchan, Elise Hines, Jen McGregor, Joelle Owusu, Jona Kottler, Kaite Welsh, Katie Muriel, Kristy Diaz, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! (in conversation with Sasha de Buyl-Pisco), Laura Lam, Laura Waddell, Mel Reeve, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Ren Aldridge of Petrol Girls, Rowan C. Clarke, Sim Bajwa, and Zeba Talkhani.
From them we have a collection of essays from these women who share their experiences over a variety of topics. Taken from the blurb; ‘From working class experience to racial divides in Trump’s America, being a child of immigrants, to sexual assault, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, identity, family, finding a voice online, role models and more, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Zeba Talkhani, Chitra Ramaswamy are just a few of the incredible women who share their experience here.’
I pledged for this project instantly because I adore the writing of Laura Lam and skipped straight to her essay to start off with. It’s a devastating story about the women in her family – how her mother grew up under the frightening rule of her mother, and the mother before her. It looks at what was considered the norm of that time, the stigma associated with mental health, and how it continues through the generations if not acted on with determination. It also speaks of a book Lam is writing with her mother that sounds like it’ll be a hard but worthwhile read – I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Onto the other essays. Not all are included in this review edition – reading those will have to wait until International Woman’s Day – but each and every one so far are as poignant and captivating as Lam’s was. The first piece by Katie Muriel is endlessly quotable in regards to the current political rumblings in America – ‘Sometimes, however, peace has to take a holiday. Sometimes, there are battles to be fought.‘ It speaks of how politics can divide a family, and how awful some people can decide they have the right to be, even to their own family members.
The next essay discusses what it’s like to be a Black woman from Glasgow, and what this results in – white people feeling they can tough her hair as if she’s from a petting zoo, or people asking increasingly incredulous questions about where she’s really from, treading delicately as if they could be misunderstood as being racist. Except it is racist. Full stop.
Jen McGregor’s essay really resonated with me, as a person who’s constantly being told by doctors that I can’t make a decision about my own body when it comes to procreation. We need more stories like McGregor’s – we need more discussion about how we can barely decide things for ourselves and even then with medical guidance, tiny decisions can have such massive ramifications. McGregor’s health issues are severe and yet it still takes until she’s 31 until she gets the surgery she knew she wanted from a much younger age. I’ve recently turned 30, and I’m currently on a waitlist for the same surgery and even without the added bonus of osteopenia I can’t wait to finally gain the the control and serenity over my body I’ve always wanted. I too have been told that even when I’m in my 30s, surgeons may refuse the referral until I have a husband who can confirm he too doesn’t want children. Which makes me so mad I can’t even formulate an apt sentence. It’s ridiculous.
I won’t go through all of the essays as I’ve given more than enough away. I highly recommend this book as it’s easy reading – or at least easy for such hard topics. There’s trigger warnings, and the essays are written in such a warm way as if we are allies (and I hope we all are!) and they’re sharing a story between friends. United we stand, and all that. This is an important book, and I’m so glad it exists. So many of us reading will finally think ‘oh, I’m not the only one.’
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