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Right around Valentine’s Day falls another V-Day that celebrates women, not in the way of chocolates and roses, but empowerment! This means readings of the Vagina Monologues pop up at theaters and across campuses. What better time than to introduce you to the book entitled I’ll Show You Mine.
I’ll Show You Mine is a beautiful book of photographs with accompanying personal narratives. It’s a hard bound book with monochromatic cover in pink hues. Inside as 120 pages of vulva portraits and small stories. All models included are age nineteen and older and do vary in age to get a spectrum of stories.
I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite stories within I’ll Show You Mine, but you’ll have to get the book to read the actual narrative.
Ashley & Emily – separate narratives by Transgender women proclaiming new love for their “created” vagina and vulvas that were always a real part of them.
Freyja - through counseling and the world of kink, she recovers from sexual abuse.
Odyne - shares the experience of living with the pain of vulvar vestibulitis and sexual assault in her past.
Kaley - a doula discussing the myth of the “loose” woman
This was out of a list of ten that I really enjoyed, but I want you to go and find your favorites in the pages of I’ll Show You Mine.
Show Off Books is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ten percent of the purchase of I’ll Show You Mine goes toward local and International charities. Show Off Books is nice enough to offer copies to physicians, sexual health clinics, counselors and schools to teach body acceptance. Show Off Books offers a sliding scale fee for the purchase of this book. You can pay what you can afford starting at $30-$50, because their mission is to get the book to those who will benefit from it, not mass profits.
I’ll Show You Mine can be purchased through many retail stores like The Pleasure Chest in California or A Woman’s Touch in Wisconsin. Or you can just click this link to purchase your copy through their website! Happy V-Day!
