Nasty Women
by Laura Jones, L.R. Lam, Ren Aldridge, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Sasha De Buyl-Pisco, Elise Hines, Alice Tarbuck, Jonatha Kottler, Chitra Ramaswamy, Christina Neuwirth, Belle Owen, Zeba Talkhani, Kate Muriel, Joelle A. Owusu, Kaite Welsh, Claire L. Heuchan, Jen McGregor, Mel Reeve, Sim Bajwa, Becca Inglis, Rowan C. Clarke, Kristy Diaz, Laura Waddell, Laura Lam
Narrated by Angela Ness, Hannah Norris, Sirena Riley, Gemma Whelan
Why You'll Love This
A collection of essays where women talk about racism, sexuality, survival—raw and unfiltered, with four narrators who ensure every voice lands.
About This Book
Twenty-four women writers contribute essays, interviews, and personal accounts to this unflinching anthology about what it means to be a woman navigating the 21st century. Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award in 2018, the collection spans a wide range of voices and experiences: working-class identity, race in Trump's America, immigration, sexual assault, Brexit, reproductive rights, and the ongoing struggle to be heard. Together, the pieces build a mosaic of solidarity and resistance, rooted in the specific and the deeply felt.
Four narrators, including Gemma Whelan, bring distinct energy to each contributor's voice, honoring the anthology's diversity without flattening it into a single tone. The audio format suits the material well: these are stories meant to be told aloud, and hearing them performed adds urgency and intimacy that prose on a page can sometimes mute. At just over six and a half hours, the collection moves with purpose, each piece landing with enough weight before giving way to the next.