Join us for an evening with author, model, entrepreneur and women’s rights activist Charli Howard as she talks about her new book Flesh and discusses the female body, objectification and what it means to be a woman in the world we live in.
Breasts. Skin. Stomach. Thighs. Arms. Legs.
Women are so much more than pieces of meat, but so often this is what we are reduced to.
Flesh. Dehumanised, distorted, exploited, dissected.
In this urgent and powerful series of essays, author and activist Charli Howard explores how society has dissected and sexualised the female body throughout time. Through analysing her own body, one piece at a time, Charli charts the impact of long-term sexual objectification and misogyny on the female body, and how to reclaim it for yourself and, eventually, truly love it as your own.
Through personal reflection and social analysis, she reminds us why we must give ourselves grace when assessing our own bodies, as we are so often viewing them through a lens corrupted long before we were born. With the rise of misogyny and male violence in the modern world, Flesh is an unmissable exploration of what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century.
You’ll never look at yourself the same way again
Charli Howard is most widely known for her work fronting leading campaigns for global brands and for championing body positivity and women’s issues. We’re delighted to welcome her to Booka.
Charli Howard is an author, model, entrepreneur and women’s rights activist. She is most widely known for her work fronting leading campaigns for global brands and can most recently be seen as the face of GHD and Spanx. She has previously collaborated with the likes of Christian Louboutin beauty, Russell & Bromley, Coco De Mer and Pat McGrath Labs. Charli has been profiled in coveted titles across the world including British Vogue, ELLE, Sunday Times Style and Rollacoaster, and was the host of BBC Sounds’ podcast Fashion Fix. She is an ambassador for Refuge, has successfully lobbied the UK government to criminalise the creation of nonconsensual deepfake pornography.
Tickets: £10 without book (admits one, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Flesh) or £17 with book (admits one, includes signed copy of Flesh)of Look What You Made Me Do))