Published in 2021
305 pages
Lucia Osborne-Crowley has worked as a journalist since 2014, starting at a local Sydney newspaper, and has since worked as a staff reporter for Women’s Agenda and the Wall Street Journal. She is currently working for Law360 as a legal affairs correspondent from London. In addition, Lucia works as a freelance writer and reporter for ABC News, the Huffington Post, GQ Australia, The Saturday Paper, and The Sunday Times.
Lucia has also worked in law, as a paralegal in the class actions department at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, a research assistant to the Dean of the UNSW Law School, and a judge’s associate in London. Her legal research work has focused on constitutional law, international law, and human rights.
Lucia currently lives in London with her cat Glen.
What is this book about?
In her first full-length book, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of the acclaimed Mood Indigo essay I Choose Elena, writes about the secrets a body keeps, from gender identity, puberty and menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation.
The voices of women, trans and non-binary people around the world, and the author’s own deeply moving testimony, cohere into an immersive polyphonic memoir that tells the story of the young person’s body in 2021. In this boldly argued and widely researched work about reclaiming our bodies from shame, Osborne-Crowley establishes her credentials as a key intersectional feminist thinker of her generation.
‘A profound, harrowing, enlightening book.’ —Susanna Moore, author of Miss Aluminum
‘Her writing is beautiful, unflinching and clear and, most importantly, it renders shame visible – a material thing that, having been sewn into the body, can also be cast off.’ —Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road
