My Body

sometimes you have an opinion on someone, you think it's your own original thought. but dig a little, and you can see your internal misogyny rearing that nasty head. I think that was me with Em Rata.

I liked her essay on “Buying Myself Back” but still penned it as a “one-time thing” that worked because of how personal and vulnerable her voice felt.

My fear about going into My Body was that it would feel semi “woe is me”, and the rest would be unrelatable problems of womanhood.

Emily's essays ARE personal, and the nuance she brings to the topics of body, sexuality, capitalism, patriarchy, and self-hate feel universal. I was reading this book while also listening to the audiobook and I could feel her words processing the world around her and inside of her. It wasn't a stream of conscious “I had a mildly interesting life” narrative.

I enjoyed some essays more than others but overall, this book is very much worth the hype.