Don't Hold My Head Down

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Take a Look at Our Summary of November Highlights, Whether You're Looking for the Latest Releases or Gift Inspiration Thisisdifferenttotryingnewthingssexuallyandnotaskingforpermissiontogoeachstepfurther.Inthiscase,bothpeopleareopenandwillingandnotsayingnotoanything.Ithinkyoushouldn'taskforpermissionforeverythingbutifsomeonesaysnoorclearlyindicatesnoasmuchastheycan,youstop. Don’t Hold My Head Down is an initiative created to raise awareness about the mental health of people in the music industry. The initiative was launched by the Music Industry Mental Health Group, which is a collective of musicians, industry professionals, and mental health advocates. The initiative encourages people in the music industry to speak openly about their mental health struggles and to create a safe space for those struggling with their mental health to express themselves and seek support. For years and years, I’ve lived my life as a woman who has been told about sex and shown about sex from a man’s perspective.” Voin toki haastaa tässä itseänikin, että miksi juuri nämä jutut ärsyttivät, mitä ne kertovat minusta. Aloitetaanpa siis oma seksimatka!)

The Don’t Hold My Head Down initiative strives to create a culture of understanding and acceptance within the music industry. By encouraging open and honest conversations about mental health, the initiative hopes to reduce stigma and create a safe space for those struggling with their mental health to seek help and support. The Benefits of Mental Health Awareness

Now, I may be making potential Unbounders run a mile here but actually, I think the experience this is giving me is absolutely brilliant. I remember after my fourth novel I felt I couldn’t write another straight away, I wanted to be ‘in the world’ again. Writing is a solitary pursuit and you can just get lost in your own head and the screen. This crowd funding model of publishing forces you to be out there talking about your book, and I’m enjoying the connections I’m making and gaining confidence from doing this. There is such a lot here to consider, and to take - as a counsellor who has worked with survivors of sexual abuse, consent has always been something that I am familiar with but here, in a section on BDSM, there is an explanation of the consent wheel, which is just fabulous. It takes the idea of explicit consent much further, also demonstrating that within sexual encounters, each partner can slide between the various stages of the wheel throughout their encounter.

Lucy previously published traditionally. Here, Norah interviews Lucy about why she decided to publish her book with Unbound. 1) What appealed to you the most about working with Unbound? The Don’t Hold My Head Down initiative is not only beneficial for those struggling with their mental health, but it can also be beneficial for the music industry as a whole. By reducing the stigma around mental health, the initiative hopes to create an environment in which people are more likely to seek help and support for their mental health needs. Quaker theology and same-sex marriage (PDF) https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/we-are-but-witnesses-2009The Don’t Hold My Head Down initiative is an important and necessary initiative that strives to create a culture of understanding and acceptance within the music industry. By encouraging open and honest conversations about mental health, the initiative hopes to reduce stigma and create a safe space for those struggling with their mental health to seek help and support. By spreading awareness and encouraging people to reach out to mental health professionals, the initiative hopes to create a productive and positive environment for the music industry. Few Frequently Asked Questions What does ‘Don’t Hold My Head Down’ mean? Ooo where to start?… Well, this book is quite particular and I knew fairly early on that it wasn’t going to handily fit into a traditional publishing genre, unless ‘explicit comedy memoir with a bit of how to and self help and feminist natter thrown in’ became a genre. Dystopian Fiction Books Everyone Should Read: Explore The Darker Side of Possible Worlds and Alternative Futures Sex sells. But if you expect Don’t Hold My Head Down to be a titillating read full of soft-core anecdotes, then you’ll be (somewhat) disappointed. Yes, Lucy-Anne Holmes’s memoir is about sex (and there are certainly some NSFW parts) but it’s not necessarily about the act, rather an exploration of sex in all its forms – body image, porn, self-esteem, communication, societal attitudes and Holmes’s own experiences. Lähdin lukemaan tätä odottaen hauskaa seksikirjaa — sain niin paljon enemmän. Holmes kirjoittaa yhteiskunnallisesti erittäin tärkeistä aiheista, kuten siitä, miten porno on miesten miehille tekemää, eikä naisten mielipiteitä, toiveita tai haluja kuulla tai nähdä siinä. Moni nainen harrastaa surkeaa seksiä, koska ei ole edes oppinut, että voisi itse olla aktiivinen toimija ja kertoa, mitä haluaa ja mitä ei. Naisten seksuaalisuutta on kontrolloitu vuosituhannet, joten onko se ihme. Edes naiskehon anatomiaa ei ole haluttu ymmärtää, eihän siitä ole kovin montaa vuotta kun vasta klitoriksen todellinen koko ja muoto paljastui. Entä moniko tietää, että naisella on 14 eri tapaa saada orgasmi? Missä näistä puhuttaisiin naisten äänellä, naisten näkökulmasta, naisia varten? Ei juuri missään.

Mutta kolmen tähden kirja tuli. Isoimman tökinnän aiheutti kirjoitustyyli. Huumori sinänsä maistuu, mutta tuntuu että seksistä puhutaan usein överihassutellen. Mietin, vaikuttavatko äänikirjat näin paljon kerrontaan - samaa vikaa oli esim. Runkkarin käsikirjassa, jonka printin lukeminen oli hetkittäin rajusti myötähäpeällistä. Eikö kirjailija ihan uskonut tarinansa kantavuuteen sellaisenaan ja siksi lisäsi ha-ha-hauskan kuorrutuksen ja esimerkiksi puhutteli jatkuvasti lukijaa tyyliin "oletteko vielä siellä"? Minnuu olisi puhutellut ihan tarina itsessään jo. Don’t Hold My Head Down is comical and written in that incredibly chatty, almost babbling, way that makes it feel like reading a letter from a friend. But there were times when the text could do with being more honed and I found some of the sentences a bit too long and the joke too drawn out. Now don’t get me wrong, I can waffle with the best of them ( Northern Soul’s lovely Editor will attest to this) but sometimes less is more. Don’t hold my head down by Lucy-Anne Holmes https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/Dont-Hold-My-Head-Down_9781783526215 Erityisesti tää ihmetytti, koska usein oltiin ihmiselämän isojen asioiden äärellä, kuten esimerkiksi seksistä kommunikoimisen ja sen, millainen naiskuva pornossa, mediassa ja yhteiskunnassa ylipäätänsä on ja miten se vaikuttaa ihan meidän perustavisten arkeen (tiedostetusti ja tiedostamattakin).Women are capable of powerful, transcendental pleasure, but that fact has not just been lost, it hasn't been respected at all. Women's sexual pleasure has been suppressed, feared, denied and punished over thousands of years, and women have been murdered and mutilated because of it" (p. 103). The initiative also encourages people to reach out to mental health professionals if they are struggling with their mental health. By seeking professional help, people can get the support they need to manage their mental health and lead healthier and happier lives. Conclusion Sexcrossesboundaries,withyourlogic,youdoinganythingwithouthispermissionisconsideredsexualassault.Andalso,thatmeanseverysingle'act'wouldrequireyouguystospeakbeforehandbeforehavingsex.Didyou?Youhonestlyneedtogrowup.

It is a sex book, as the author says. She talks candidly about her sex life and there's quite a bit of detailed description, but importantly much of it is description of how sex makes the author feel, not just the acts themselves. Comparisons with Caitlin Moran come to mind, but where the latter always aims for the punchline, Holmes is much more genuine in both her biography and her humour. I remember saying ‘if I find a publisher who gets it’ then I will go with them. And Unbound just totally got it. I met John Mithcinson and had a really long chat and he seemed to think it was a funny, exciting and necessary book, as did I. I definitely feel I am in the right place. When I told my agent, Rowan Lawton, that I was going with Unbound, she said she was pleased, as she feared that going the traditional route would have meant me having to make compromises I didn’t want to make over the content, title and cover. 2) How has the experience compared to publishing traditionally? There'sakeydifferencebetweennotaskingpermissionbeforeyoudoeverysinglething,anddoingsomethingbecauseapersondoesn'twanttodoit. Growing up in the age of the lad’s mag, these were genuine things women my age would have thought (or been told to think). With the rise of technology and access to pornography, the situation isnt getting any easier for today’s young people. No wonder we’re all so confused about sex. The Don’t Hold My Head Down initiative encourages people to spread awareness about mental health in the music industry. By sharing information, resources, and stories on social media, people can help to spread the message of the initiative and help to create a more understanding and accepting culture within the music industry.As a woman, I found that there were many times throughout this book where I found myself relating to what Holmes was saying, feeling, experiencing and expressing. I actually keep a handwritten book journal, where I transcribe favourite quotes from the books that I have read. For this book, there were far too many that I would have liked to copy. I found myself reading out passages of it to my boyfriend, as I found sections that expressed exactly what I had felt in the past, but in a much more coherent, eloquent way!