![]() ![]() They are what women and girls are not supposed to be or do or want. I call them “sins,” but of course they are not. The Gospel of Mona presents instead the Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls: anger, attention, profanity, ambition, violence, power, lust. This book is my instruction manual for smashing that pinata.Ĭhristianity preaches the Seven Deadly Sins. It was stubborn but my tenacity and rage became my ladder. For years I had been thumping away at patriarchy, like a pinata hanging tantalizingly just out of reach. ![]() For years, I had been shedding shame and gaining rage. Who was this woman I had become who looks men in the eye, seizing their gaze with my fury until their fear tells me they understand not to fuck with me? I wanted to figure her out. I knew I had to write it while I was still high on the glory of beating up a man who sexually assaulted me. I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket. ![]()
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