Stories from the Beauty Parlor Feminist Book Club
When: May 26, 2026 - 19.30
Stories from the Beauty Parlor and Ms Informed
Stories from the Beauty Parlor https://www.beautyparlorstories.org/ is a multi-disciplinary community mobilization and fundraising platform that amplifies the voices of women* and LGBTQIA+ individuals worldwide. Their feminist global book club meets at different venues across Berlin. In May they’re teaming up with the lovely ladies of the amazing @the_ms_informed feminist book club and will be hosted by us here at ivallan’s books!
The Sex Lives of African Women
This time they’re reading and discussing “The Sex Lives of African Women” by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. The book uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities, and relationships. Many of the women who tell their stories in this collection recall the journeys they have travelled in order to own their own sexualities. They do this by grappling with experiences of sexual abuse, resisting the religious edicts of their childhood, and by asserting their sexual power.
From finding queer community in Egypt to living a polyamorous life in Senegal to understanding the intersectionality of religion and pleasure in Cameroon to choosing to leave relationships that no longer serve them, these narratives are as individual and illuminating as the women who share them.
As in all the books chosen by the feminist book club it provides a deep insight into women’s quest for freedom and to live a truly liberated life.
