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Title	:	A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated
Author	:	Tallulah Pomeroy
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2018 by Soft Skull Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Feminism. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Humor

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"A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I wanted: a disgusting, hilarious, and honest book that pays tribute to the female body and all of its habits and suppurations. It is delightfully and uncomfortably relatable and I love it with my whole self—heart, sweat, bowels, and all."—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

We sniff our knickers; we bite our own toenails; we laboriously dig out ingrown hairs: Women aren't as ladylike as people would like to imagine. Using anecdotes collected from hundreds of anonymous sources, this gleefully disgusting illustrated book rewrites our definition of femininity.

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.

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Ratings: 3.78 From 122 Users | 27 Reviews

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Ever discovered one of your mates is ok with talking about poop? Thats the comfort this book offers! Fun stories in an illustrated collection with the idea of showing that women are human and therefore, gross. Who knew!

Absolutely disgusting, but in a good way.

Wanted moreThis book was amazing!!! Would have easily given it 5 stars if it was longer. Hopefully means we will get a second book.

Got this from the Soft Skull book club. Not something I'd spend $17 on, just because of how small and quick it is, but seems like something I'd pass around to people or something.Cute, gross, pretty fun. It's like a 30 minute read, with 20 of those being the preface.Honestly my biggest complaint is that the preface is like 3x longer than the content of the book, and since the content of the book is only ~30 (very brief) anecdotes, the preface kind of 'spoils' a good chunk of the book. I thought

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Hilarious easy afternoon read

Very silly and fun, with great illustrations.