May feminist book club: The Sex Life of African Women

Mark 26.5 for our next global book club together with the lovely ladies of the amazing @the_ms_informed feminist book club at the cosiest (and maybe most sex-positive) English bookstore in Kreuzberg: @ivallansbooks

This time we will read and discuss “The Sex Lives of African Women” by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. The book uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities, and relationships.

Many of the women who tell their stories in this collection recall the journeys they have travelled in order to own their own sexualities. They do this by grappling with experiences of sexual abuse, resisting the religious edicts of their childhood, and by asserting their sexual power.

From finding queer community in Egypt to living a polyamorous life in Senegal to understanding the intersectionality of religion and pleasure in Cameroon to choosing to leave relationships that no longer serve them, these narratives are as individual and illuminating as the women who share them.

As in all our book clubs books it provides a deep insight into women’s quest for freedom and to live a truly liberated life.

Date & Time: 26.05, 7:30pm

Location: Ivallan’s Second Hand & Exceptional Books
Schönleinstrasse 32, 10967 Berlin