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Everyone's Invited by Soma Sara
5.0
"Those disturbing little moments that wash over you as no big deal. But still, you moved, you ebbed, you flowed."
In 2020, an online platform called 'Everyone's invited" was created to invite survivor stories of sexual transgressions of all types.
In this short series if essays, Soma examines how gender expectations shape experiences from birth. How we have gendered scripts which appears too simplistic at first, but under further examination the scripts traces are found in many facets of life. Soma highlights the issues we face are not new, and there has been historical Activists whom have attempted to create dialogue for a better world.
Some standout chapters for me
Pain is normal - an articulate examination of the scripts which we use and place on women to expect and normalise pain rather than pleasure.
Objects - an exploration of the internalised object lens.
Nothing compares to an English Rose - how lack of cultural responsiveness and intersectional application to gender based violence fails women from the global majority.
Backlash - how "not all men" counter arguments centre the comfort of perpetrators.
This is a well written, easy to access and engaging read; the essays offer a modern day critique with research drawn from sources cited in the reference. Although the book centres heterosexual experiences (as these are personal and peer lived experience essays from Soma), I am aware that the platform welcomes the wider LQBTQIA+ community.
In 2020, an online platform called 'Everyone's invited" was created to invite survivor stories of sexual transgressions of all types.
In this short series if essays, Soma examines how gender expectations shape experiences from birth. How we have gendered scripts which appears too simplistic at first, but under further examination the scripts traces are found in many facets of life. Soma highlights the issues we face are not new, and there has been historical Activists whom have attempted to create dialogue for a better world.
Some standout chapters for me
Pain is normal - an articulate examination of the scripts which we use and place on women to expect and normalise pain rather than pleasure.
Objects - an exploration of the internalised object lens.
Nothing compares to an English Rose - how lack of cultural responsiveness and intersectional application to gender based violence fails women from the global majority.
Backlash - how "not all men" counter arguments centre the comfort of perpetrators.
This is a well written, easy to access and engaging read; the essays offer a modern day critique with research drawn from sources cited in the reference. Although the book centres heterosexual experiences (as these are personal and peer lived experience essays from Soma), I am aware that the platform welcomes the wider LQBTQIA+ community.