A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene - True Stories, Illustrated

Author(s): Tallulah Pomeroy

Young Adult Non Fiction | Humour

One day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she'd drunkenly 'done a shit in the sink.' 'She's not a girl if she did that,' said one to the other. 'She may have a vagina, but she's not a girl.'

This exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. How many things had her friends done that meant they 'weren't girls?' She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their 'unladylike' behaviors. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined- about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they'd thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed.

For A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook posts - plus dozens more from an expanded call for submissions - to create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.

November 2018


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781925713794
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : 0.264
  • : August 2018
  • : 1.4 Centimeters X 14.1 Centimeters X 20.8 Centimeters
  • : November 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 112
  • : 1811
  • : Paperback
  • : Tallulah Pomeroy