Bel Olid is a Catalan writer and translator who stopped trying to be the woman the world demands and started trying just...to be.

"An extraordinary, provocative book that raises important questions about compulsory sexuality and verbal and physical violence against women. It dismantles stereotypes, sometimes with humour, and challenges gender categories. A must-read for everyone."Aurélie Vialette, Yale University"Bel Olid’s lucid feminist insights are more relevant than ever and show how patriarchy works in the world at large."Carol Hay, author of Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution

• To Be or Not to Be Machine Guns Not All Men Raped Bodies, Rapable Bodies Misfits Don’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public Love Doesn’t Kill Together We’ll Take Back the Night #Onsónlesdones The School of Life We Don’t Want to Wear the Trousers Being Nothing to Be Everything Feminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming reality Sources

Bel Olid is a Catalan writer and translator who stopped trying to be the woman the world demands and started trying just...to be.

"An extraordinary, provocative book that raises important questions about compulsory sexuality and verbal and physical violence against women. It dismantles stereotypes, sometimes with humour, and challenges gender categories. A must-read for everyone."Aurélie Vialette, Yale University"Bel Olid’s lucid feminist insights are more relevant than ever and show how patriarchy works in the world at large."Carol Hay, author of Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution

• To Be or Not to Be Machine Guns Not All Men Raped Bodies, Rapable Bodies Misfits Don’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public Love Doesn’t Kill Together We’ll Take Back the Night #Onsónlesdones The School of Life We Don’t Want to Wear the Trousers Being Nothing to Be Everything Feminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming reality Sources

Bel Olid is a Catalan writer and translator who stopped trying to be the woman the world demands and started trying just...to be.

"An extraordinary, provocative book that raises important questions about compulsory sexuality and verbal and physical violence against women. It dismantles stereotypes, sometimes with humour, and challenges gender categories. A must-read for everyone."Aurélie Vialette, Yale University"Bel Olid’s lucid feminist insights are more relevant than ever and show how patriarchy works in the world at large."Carol Hay, author of Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution

• To Be or Not to Be Machine Guns Not All Men Raped Bodies, Rapable Bodies Misfits Don’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public Love Doesn’t Kill Together We’ll Take Back the Night #Onsónlesdones The School of Life We Don’t Want to Wear the Trousers Being Nothing to Be Everything Feminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming reality Sources