What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We will Anyhow) by Nimko Ali, read by Nimko Ali and Amarah-Jae St Aubyn.

14 countries, 42 women, each with a tale no one has heard before.

What do you do if you are living within the roads and on your period? Exactly what does it feel just like to truly have a poo after you have given birth? How do we figure out how to love our anatomies again after they’ve been abused? And, how do you know if you have ever actually orgasmed? Most of us have about What We’re Told Never to DISCUSS (But We will Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia questions about our anatomies but often women’s voices are silenced for being impolite or incorrect

What We’re Told Not To Talk About (But WE WILL Anyway) can be an important, taboo-breaking book that provides voice to the experiences of women from all walks of life, whose stories may not ordinarily be heard. Alongside Nimko’s story of living with FGM, rebuilding her romantic relationship with her own body and being a woman her very own way, these are the true tales of real females who are sharing the experiences they’ve always been told should be magic formula and shameful.

The book is a call to arms for all women to reclaim the narrative around their bodies also to won’t bow towards the taboos which keep us silent. There is absolutely no such point as oversharing.

‘Hilarious and heart-breaking at exactly the same time, Nimko has blown apart all taboos, blown apart the echo chamber and included all women in the feminist conversation. Essential reading for everyone’ – Scarlett Curtis, writer of Feminists Don’t Put on Pink

‘Nimko’s book will shift the discussion around women’s body. Our bodies, and everything they are doing, make us who we are’

Amika George, founder of Free Intervals Campaign.

‘Nimko says it how it really is. There is no subject too taboo for her to tackle. We have to all be discussing our vaginas and she actually is leading the method’

Bryony Gordon, author of Mad Girl

‘Nimko Ali is my hero! She’s an anti-FGM activist and is in charge of changing laws across the globe! She is also hilarious and amazing’

Zoe Sugg

‘Nimko Ali is heroine for our period, she destroys the idea of things getting too rude to discuss’ Caitlin Moran, writer of How to Be a Woman