Description via Goodreads: Glitter is about the female sexual experience, which contrary to what the media would have you believe, is not all bubble baths and chick flicks.
Women are constantly judged as slutty, or uptight, but the reality is somewhere in between those two, and sometimes, nowhere near either. We have secret shames and private desires and we all feel we are the only one. We are good church-going girls with a fondness for the paddle, PTA moms who hire escorts, feminists who like to bottom in the bedroom, slutty virgins, bi-curious married laddies and women with a past. We are gay, straight, and undecided. We are all over the map, and we are amazing.
Ok-honesty is the best policy right?
I am more than a little impartial in my review of this one. Why? Because I'm one of the Glitter Girls. One of the woman who submitted a story.....their story. Doing so was one of the most terrifying, therapeutic and empowering thing I have ever done.
So here is the deal. If ever you take my advice on any book I write about, take my advice on this one.
Pick up a copy.
Read the stories and support woman everywhere.
Glitter is a compilation of stories written by women (real women) ranging in topics from struggling with identities and desires to nervous first experiences and current relationships.
This is one of those books that as soon as I received a copy, I devoured it. Not because of the subject matter, but because it reminded me that I'm not alone. It reminded me that despite all the trappings of a small town and small town thinking, there is a bigger world out there and that it's good.....NORMAL to want/desire what I want/desire without feeling weird or guilty about it.
Some of the stories the women shared made me laugh. Some of their stories made me cry. But each contribution was open and honest, offering a new perspective and understanding of the strength and wisdom each of them possess.
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