Nasty Women

A Collection of Essays and Accounts on What It Is To Be a Woman in the 21st Century

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Pub Date 8 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 8 Mar 2022

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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.

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...


Advance Praise

369% funded on Kickstarter.

"An essential window into the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now" - Margaret Atwood

"An important if not essential collection of essays, this book is almost impossible to put down. It will make you proud to call yourself a Nasty Woman." - Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

"An essential, incredible multitudinous riot of voices... required reading." - Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant


"'Nasty Women Is The Intersectional Essay Collection Feminists Need' - Huffington Post

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369% funded on Kickstarter.

"An essential window into the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now" - Margaret Atwood

"An important if not essential collection of essays, this book is...


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After following the social media hype - and hugely successful Kickstarter - surrounding 404 Ink's essay collection, I was dying to discover what was in its pages. Thankfully, the book doesn't disappoint; in fact, I found it dug deeper, and covered more wide-ranging issues, than I had expected. From racism to sexism, pregnancy to death, immigration to ableism, Nasty Woman looks at what it means to be a woman today through a variety of experiences and perspectives. For anyone looking for the courage to embrace their inner #NastyWoman in the current climate, 404 Ink has more than a few ideas for you.

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This collection of essays by women tackling "the rule of a racist, misogynistic demagogue" is superb in orienting readers to the need for intersectional protest in both public and private spheres. But it isn't simply or merely a stance against the forty-fifth president (although it most certainly is that), but a collection staking out a hard and fast, defiant articulation against rape culture, against institutionalized sexism, against bigotry, and exclusionary liberalism. This isn't just about forty-five, but also Brexit's cultural racism and the hard rightwing turn taken by the US and Europe.

I was most moved by Jen McGregor's essay 'Lament: Living with the Consequences of Contraception," Mel Reeve's 'The Nastiness of Survival,' 'Go Home' by Sim Bajwa, and Joelle Owusu's 'The Dark Girl's Enlightenment.'

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