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 BeMachine GunsNot All MenRaped Bodies, Rapable BodiesMisfitsDon’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in PublicLove Doesn’t KillTogether We’ll Take Back the Night#OnsónlesdonesThe School of LifeWe Don’t Want to Wear the TrousersBeing Nothing to Be EverythingFeminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming realitySources

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 BeMachine GunsNot All MenRaped Bodies, Rapable BodiesMisfitsDon’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in PublicLove Doesn’t KillTogether We’ll Take Back the Night#OnsónlesdonesThe School of LifeWe Don’t Want to Wear the TrousersBeing Nothing to Be EverythingFeminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming realitySources

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 BeMachine GunsNot All MenRaped Bodies, Rapable BodiesMisfitsDon’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in PublicLove Doesn’t KillTogether We’ll Take Back the Night#OnsónlesdonesThe School of LifeWe Don’t Want to Wear the TrousersBeing Nothing to Be EverythingFeminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming realitySources