'I Just Want To Make Women Wake Up To Their Power': Florence Given On Why You Will Feel Uncomfortable Reading Her New Book

‘I’ve kind of had a life of suppressing my passion in favour of male attention,’ says Florence Given, illustrator and author of the newly-released. ‘We all know that men, as a whole, don't like passionate women who are intelligent because it threatens their masculinity and they are no longer in a position of my power.

Creating something that forces women to question ‘all the things we think are normal but are actually just normalised’, the book unpacks everything from rape culture to toxic relationships, setting friendship boundaries to queerness, masturbation to ghosting – all the while blessing readers with 32 of her much-loved illustrations.But one of the biggest areas of focus, and what’s dubbed the book ‘The Beauty Myth for the Instagram generation’ is how Florence explains desirability politics.

It’s hard truths like this that make the book an uncomfortable read, Florence admits, because it will challenge everything you know about the world. ‘Especially for people who don’t talk about feminism with their friends, my god, this is going to be so uncomfortable,’ she says. ‘My book is poking holes in the façades of patriarchal society, and that a lot of stuff we engage with is not normal, it's been normalized, there's a difference.

Particularly uncomfortable are the chapters about consent and rape culture, which according to Florence were the hardest for her to write. ‘I realised while writing and talking to friends, “The one thing we all have in common is that almost every single one of us has been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed by men.”’ she explains. ‘And that's a sad truth for women to acknowledge that this is the one thing we all have in common.

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