Hello my sweet babes!!!
This is just a quick announcement to let you know that my second book Dating While Feminist is now available (in print and ebook—ebook link coming shortly).
Dating While Feminist is a collection of nonfiction essays that chronologically follows my previous book Love Poems For Butchers (so if you’re a stickler for the timeline and having the full story make sure you’ve read that first lol). I’ll post the full description of the book below.
ATTENTION PAID SUBSTACK SUBSCRIBERS: The stories in this collection have been (and will continue to be) released monthly here on the stack. We’re about 75% through the book in terms of the stories I’ve released so far. After all the stories have been released on the stack, the stories will continue (have no fear!) but they’ll be stories I’m working on for book 3 (Eat Me: Essays on Fatphobia, Feminism, and Female Pleasure). Whether you prefer to read books in their bookish form or whether you don’t care you just want the stories in your box as soon as possible, there’s a support option for you! And please know that no matter how you show your support, it matters, and I feel it deeply <3
ALSO FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: As a little extra thank you for your love and support, I’ll be choosing two subscribers (randomly) to receive a free SIGNED copy of Dating While Feminist—All you have to do is comment on this post so I know you’re comfortable giving me your address so I can mail it to you.
Thank you again for all your support—I literally could not do this without you!
Book Description: Victoria Young is dating in her thirties and increasingly uncomfortable with the experiences available to her despite what the movies of her youth had promised. This is the life of a fat woman navigating the world of sex and dating as a feminist inescapably living in a patriarchy. If her debut collection Love Poems For Butchers was about the struggle to get men to view her as a person, Dating While Feminist is a meditation on the struggle to get men to be interesting and fun (and failing that, at least sexually satisfying). From bad first dates to taking charge of her own sexual liberation, Young’s stories track one feminist’s journey from intellectually knowing the truth about what she deserves to unabashedly practicing it in real life. She goes on dates with three different men named Andy, has period sex with an Olympic champion, finds sexual liberation with an old fling she hasn’t seen in nearly a decade, is betrayed by a new lover, finds out that just because you believe something doesn’t make it true, and much more. Humorous and raw, Dating While Feminist exposes both the joys and the brutality of living in a man’s world as a (fat) woman.
The uproarious and poignant essays in this collection draw on the scathing, wildly candid, and hilarious particulars of Young’s life as she navigates sexual liberation in a fatphobic, sexist world. Dating While Feminist is Young at her most honest, relatable, and unflinching.
Just ordered! Congrats! xo
Yes please!!