Unslut

Name: Unslut
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Lindin
ISBN: 9781520031651

Author: Emily Lindin

Narrator: Erin Yuen

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/27/2016

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women

Synopsis

When Emily Lindin was eleven years old, she was branded a "slut" by the rest of her classmates. For the next few years of her life, she was bullied incessantly at school, after school, and online. At the time, Emily didn't feel comfortable confiding in her parents or in the other adults her my life. But she did keep a diary. Slut/UnSlut is adapted from Emily's much-acclaimed blog "The UnSlut Project" presenting unaltered excerpts from that diary alongside split-page commentary to provide context and perspective.

About Emily Lindin

Emily LindinÂ is a Harvard graduate, PhD candidate, and suicide prevention activist living in Southern California. The UnSlut Project was inspired by her own experience. The UnSlut Project began when Emily, as an adult, chose to publish her own middle school diaries online in response to learning about the suicides of several teen girls who had experienced similar bullying, and a strong desire to reach out to others who still suffer such abuse.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veronica on February 15, 2016

Edited review below: Emily Linden is either the bravest woman or the dumbest. It is brave to think you could transcribe your middle school diary & be celebrated. She is dumb to think it wouldn't matter. Emily may also be a far better person than I ever will be. What makes this book is powerful is no......more

Goodreads review by Jen on February 22, 2016

UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir by Emily Lindin is a published diary of Lindin’s time in middle school and how she, and many other of her female classmates, were labeled as “sluts”. The diary is accompanied by now-Lindin’s comments; explanations of the behaviors of those around her in the years of midd......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on January 22, 2024

So many flashbacks while reading this book, it makes me want to go through my old diaries from when I was in middle and high school. Adolescence it such a roller coaster and I could identify with so much in this-- the attempts at dark poetry, the emotions and the infatuations and crushes, along with......more