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My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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AlecSchueler
I Choose Elena and My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osbourne Crowley. Can highly recommend these to any man who is wanting to better understand issues of sexual assault against women, in terms of how normalised it is, the challenges women face in being believed by other men and the long term health effects that manifest themselves after such attacks and after hiding the truth. Wanted to mention it here because I become more aware each passing week of the blindspots in the HN community regarding the struggles and perspectives of women. If you want to get a bit out of the male dominated tech bubble and learn about some drastically different experiences from your own these are highly recommend. Edit to differentiate the two books: The first is basically a memoir of the author in terms of her own experiences with assault and chronic illness, where the latter is a sort of collaged memoir from multiple people.…

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