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Title: Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene, A: True Stories, Illustrated
Author: POMEROY TALLULAH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/10/2018
Imprint: SCRIBE
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
One day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she’d drunkenly ‘done a shit in the sink.’ ‘She’s not a girl if she did that,’ said one to the other. ‘She may have a vagina, but she’s not a girl.’
This exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. How many things had her friends done that meant they ‘weren’t girls?’ She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their ‘unladylike’ behaviors. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined- about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they’d thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed.
For A Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook posts – plus dozens more from an expanded call for submissions – to create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.
ISBN: 9781925713794
Pages: 112