AustLit

'I had a book come out last month about shame. It’s about my own shame—the shame I have carried ever since I was sexually abused as a child and told no one, the shame I carried after I was raped on a night out as a teenager and told no one—and it’s about other peoples’ shame. It is made up of interviews with people of marginalised genders all around the world; it is, I hope, a polyphonic memoir about what a life can look like when it is defined or derailed by shame, and how we can and do recover.' (Introduction)