Being Bad, Arielle Egozi
Being Bad, Arielle Egozi
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Being Bad
Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be

Author: Arielle Egozi

Narrator: Arielle Egozi

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2024


Synopsis

Salon's inaugural sex and love advice columnist and author of the viral LinkedIn sex work post, Arielle Egozi, shares their journey as a queer, neurodivergent child of immigrants who never quite fit into the social roles she was supposed to, instead choosing to embrace their multiple dimensions, and eventually discovering freedom—and true power—by being "bad" in a world that kept trying to force her to be "good."

With Arielle's personal and relatable guidance, listeners will learn how to: escape the male gaze for good; release the shame they've internalized; make their friends the loves of their lives; embrace their inner domme and reclaim their power; ditch relationship hierarchy to build the relationship(s) of their dreams; discover that sex positivity isn't about having sex at all.

Using frameworks and philosophies cultivated from years of living, writing, speaking, and educating on sex, relationships, and identity through a queer and decolonizing lens, Arielle offers questions, practices, and tools to help you find your own power and step into it—creating space for you to dream far beyond what your family, society, or capitalist culture expects. Being Bad offers you the permission to become who you are, however you choose to be.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna on April 24, 2024

Raw, emotional, very moving. This memoir recounts the author's journey through traumatic childhood, parental divorce and neglect, history of relationship abuse including SA, death of a sibling, and finally journey to freedom and healing through a queer relationship, found family of friends, discover......more

Goodreads review by Kat on November 11, 2024

Wow. Wowowowowowowowow! The fact that this book doesn't have more reviews is crazy to me. Egozi has SUCH a way with words, and not just the elegant, prose-ones, but the raw, rough, ugly words that make their message hit home even harder. For a lifelong people-pleaser (almost compulsively so), I need......more

Goodreads review by Angel on November 21, 2025

Being Bad carries a strong and empowering overall message, and I genuinely appreciated the themes the author is conveying. However, the delivery didn’t fully land for me. The pacing felt slow, and I often had to stop, refocus, and push myself to keep going. What makes this book even more conflicting......more

Goodreads review by Katie on November 30, 2025

2.5, Felt a bit rudimentary......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on October 12, 2024

this reads like a nostalgic 2000’s advice column if 2000’s advice columns were inclusive and relevant to my identities. gifted as a goodreads giveaway......more