Lucia Osborne-Crowley Lucia Osborne-Crowley i(18508010 works by)
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1 Nothing Good Can Come of This Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 81 no. 1 2022; Meanjin Online 2022;

'I have always thought of myself as emotional to a fault, unable to suppress all the feelings I have. But I’ve realised recently that’s not true. For 29 years now, I have been completely unable to feel or express anger. Every week, my therapist and I have a version of the same conversation.' (Introduction)

1 Shame and the Performance of Vulnerability Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2021;
'I had a book come out last month about shame. It’s about my own shame—the shame I have carried ever since I was sexually abused as a child and told no one, the shame I carried after I was raped on a night out as a teenager and told no one—and it’s about other peoples’ shame. It is made up of interviews with people of marginalised genders all around the world; it is, I hope, a polyphonic memoir about what a life can look like when it is defined or derailed by shame, and how we can and do recover.' (Introduction)
1 My Body Keeps Your Secrets : An Extract Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography extract
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2021;
1 7 y separately published work icon My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 23155580 2021 single work autobiography biography

'It occurred to me that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had been done to me. Because I believed it was all my fault.

'Lucia Osborne-Crowley didn't tell a soul when she was raped aged fifteen. Then, eighteen months after she was attacked, her body began to turn on her - and what followed were sudden bouts of searing, unbearable pain that saw her in and out of hospital for the next ten years.

'At twenty-five, Lucia for the first time told the truth about her rape. This disclosure triggered an endless series of appointments with doctors, trauma specialists and therapists. Meanwhile, Lucia threw herself into researching the shadowy intricacies of abuse, trauma and shame.

'In My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Lucia shares the voices of women and trans and non-binary people around the world, as well as her own deeply moving testimony. She writes of vulnerability, acceptance and the reclaiming of our selves, all in defiance of a world where atrocities are committed and survivors are repeatedly told to carry the weight of that shame.

'Widely researched and boldly argued, this book reveals the secrets our bodies bury deep within them, the way trauma can rewrite our biology, and how our complicated relationships with sex affect our connection with others. Crafted in a daring and immersive literary form, My Body Keeps Your Secrets is a necessary, elegant and empathetic work that further establishes Lucia's credentials as a key intersectional feminist thinker for a new generation.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 What If We Never Recover? Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2021;
3 2 y separately published work icon I Choose Elena Lucia Osborne-Crowley , London : The Indigo Press , 2019 18508036 2019 single work autobiography

'Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne- Crowley was violently raped on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the very first time.

'Eventually finding solace in writers like Elena Ferrante, this is a work about rediscovering vulnerability and resilience in the face of formerly unbearable trauma. The author explores what has been proved, but is not yet widely known, about trauma, bringing to our attention, its cyclical, intergenerational nature; how trauma intersects with deeply-held beliefs about the credibility of women; and how trauma is played out again and again in the fabric of our cultures, governments, judicial systems and relationships.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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