
My Body, My Book Club
BODILY AUTONOMY: UNITING THROUGH BOOKS
NEXT EVENTs
Online
"Normalize It"
with Jessica Zucker
6th of November 2025
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (UK Time)
Limited places available
Minimum Donation: £3
(all proceeds go to The Vavengers)
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Normalize It by Jessica Zucker
It's time to start speaking up about the all-too-common, but under-acknowledged, taboos women navigate throughout their lives.
In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking book I Had a Miscarriage, Jessica Zucker boldly exposed the silence, stigma, and shame that surround pregnancy loss and demonstrated the need to normalize conversations around painful reproductive events that too often go unspoken.
In Normalize It, Zucker expands her lens to address a multitude of challenges women face--including girlhood, body image, motherhood, reproductive choice, sexual trauma, menopause, and more--that so often incite shame and overwhelming cultural pressure to stay silent. Based on patient stories, coupled with cutting-edge psychological research, Zucker fearlessly shares her insights into the shame and stigma that shroud so many women's experiences and explores the liberation that can follow when we get vulnerable and talk about the hard stuff.
Normalize It is a nuanced look at what it means to be a woman that will make readers feel seen, heard, and empowered to tell their stories. By normalizing talking about difficult things, Zucker opens the door to creating cultural change that acknowledges and supports women's truths.
About our Guest


About the Book Club
My Body, My Book Club aims to connect people and create communities. We read fiction books (with the odd memoir here and there too) that deal with different aspects of how we understand bodily autonomy and exemplify how we can get involved and support each other.
Issues such as gender-based violence, racism, homelessness, displacement, abortion, obstetric violence, and the rights of marginalised communities, like the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ groups, are just some of the topics we cover.
All opinions expressed during book club meetings are those of individuals and do not necessarily reflect those of My Body, My Book Club or the charities it supports.
How it Works
We know this is heavy stuff, but the book club hopes to foster empathy as well as raise awareness and question established narratives. Our main goal is to connect communities. So, for each session, we partner with a charity working with the subject we will be reading about in the novel, and we invite an expert on the topic to join our chat. (Also, all proceeds from the sale of tickets will be donated to the month’s charity.)
Too Busy to Read the Book?
We understand that people are busy and life happens – so please do join us even if you don’t manage to finish the book in time. We will also always provide other ways in which you can get involved and learn more about the subject in the "Next Book" section, whether it’s through a video or a blog post.
About the Host

Dr Julia Martins is a historian of the body, an activist, and an unapologetic bookworm. She is an Activism Outreach Supporter with The Vavengers, a member of the Charity Committee of the FGM Education Project, and an editor at the Feminist Perspectives Collective.
She writes about gender history and history of medicine, and how history can inform contemporary feminism.
You can check out her YouTube channel Living History and her website, and follow her on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram.
My Body, My Book Club was launched as part of her involvement in the Abortion Rights UK Activist Bootcamp.

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