Shrill

Description:

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss--and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.

subjects: Conduct of life,  Biography,  Feminists,  Humor,  Women journalists,  Women,  nyt:culture=2016-06-12,  New York Times bestseller,  Humor, form, essays,  Women, united states, biography,  Journalists, biography,  Feminism,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Editors, Journalists, Publishers,  West, Lindy,  Women -- Humor,  Conduct of life -- Humor,  Women journalists -- United States -- Biography,  Feminists -- United States -- Biography,  United States

People: Lindy West

Places: United States