Book Club | Strong Female Character
Di., 30. Jän.
|Academy Bar
Short teaser: Unsurprisingly hilarious memoir from Scottish comedienne Fern Brady about her late-in-life autism diagnosis and navigating child, teen and adulthood undiagnosed. Find us in the back room of Academy!
Time & Location
30. Jän. 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
Academy Bar, Franz-Josef-Straße 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
About the event
Note: Our discussions are held in English. If you're interested in setting up a German-language Book Club, please let us know: hello@quekusa.at
This month's book is "Strong Female Character" by Fern Brady.
Description from goodreads:
"'This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like.'
Strong Female Character is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity. Fern Brady will use her voice as a neurodivergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page. It will take a sledgehammer to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope which is mistakenly applied to neurodiverse women. It will also look at how her lack of regard…