What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway)
Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia
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Amarah-Jae St Aubyn
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Nimko Ali
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Nimko Ali
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What We're Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway), by Nimko Ali, read by Nimko Ali and Amarah-Jae St Aubyn.
Fourteen countries, 42 women, each with a story no one has heard before.
What do you do when you're living on the streets and on your period? What does it feel like to have a poo after you've given birth? How do we learn to love our bodies again after they've been abused? And, how do you know if you've ever really orgasmed? We all have questions about our bodies, but often women's voices are silenced for being impolite or improper.
What We're Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway) is an important, taboo-breaking book that gives voice to the experiences of women from all walks of life, whose stories might not ordinarily be heard. Alongside Nimko's story of living with FGM, rebuilding her relationship with her own body and being a woman her own way, these are the true stories of real women who are sharing the experiences they've always been told should be secret and shameful.
The book is a call to arms for all women to reclaim the narrative around their bodies and to refuse to bow to the taboos which keep us silent. There is no such thing as oversharing.
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