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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 My Body Keeps Your Secrets
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'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.'

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 328p.p.
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      • Published August 2021
      ISBN: 9781760878108 (pbk)

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[Review] My Body Keeps Your Secrets Zoe Smith , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , December no. 28 2022; (p. 163 - 165)

— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
'Sometimes what hurts us the most is the aftermath, the everyday challenge of living in a body that has been damaged and disrespected and shamed’, Lucia Osborne-Crowley provocatively asserts in the opening chapter of her second non-fiction work, My Body Keeps Your Secrets (26). The recent #Me Too movement has focused on uplifting the voices of survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment, encouraging them to speak out about their experiences in order to demonstrate the prevalence of rape and the insidious culture of misogyny that male violence is unquestioningly constructed upon. Osborne-Crowley’s work shows the capacity and need for progression beyond attention centred around survivors’ experiences of the moment of rape and sexual harassment, focusing instead on ‘the years and years and years ... that come after the assault’ (25). My Body Keeps Your Secrets gives prominence to survivors’ experiences of exactly that, survival, and how they cope with both the aftermath of violence and abuse, and the impact that growing up in an oppressive society takes on female and non-binary bodies.'  (Introduction) 
y separately published work icon Live Recording : Lucia Osborne-Crowley in Conversation Zara McDonald (interviewer), 2021 23474624 2021 single work podcast interview

'Lucia Osborne-Crowley in conversation with Zara McDonald about Osborne-Crowley's latest work, My Body Keeps Your Secrets.'  (Production summary)

y separately published work icon At Home with Lucia Osborne-Crowley Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2021 23448132 2021 single work podcast interview

'Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist, essayist, writer, and legal researcher. Her debut was the 2020 memoir 'I Choose Elena', a work she has followed up in 2021 with 'My Body Keeps Your Secrets'.

'Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, Guardian, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Women's Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow and Meanjin.' (Production introduction)

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)
Trauma and Discovery : Documenting Reclamation Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 436 2021; (p. 51-52)

— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
'The proliferation of trauma writing in the past few years is a double-edged sword. While giving public voice to subjects once relegated to the dark lessens stigma and creates agency, there is almost an expectation for women writers to reveal or perform their trauma, as well as a risk of exploitation and retraumatisation.' (Introduction)
Books Roundup : Small Joys of Real Life, Things We See in the Light, Lies, Damned Lies, My Body Keeps Your Secrets Ellen Cregan , Melanie Saward , Monique Grbec , Emily Clements , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2021;

— Review of Small Joys of Real Life Allee Richards , 2021 single work novel ; The Things We See in the Light Amal Awad , 2021 single work novel ; Lies, Damned Lies Claire G. Coleman , 2021 single work autobiography ; My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
Lucia Osborne-Crowley : My Body Keeps Your Secrets Sanchana Venkatesh , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2021;

— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography

'Lucia Osborne Crowley explores how trauma affects our bodies, recounting her own experiences and those of others.'

Trauma and Discovery : Documenting Reclamation Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 436 2021; (p. 51-52)

— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
'The proliferation of trauma writing in the past few years is a double-edged sword. While giving public voice to subjects once relegated to the dark lessens stigma and creates agency, there is almost an expectation for women writers to reveal or perform their trauma, as well as a risk of exploitation and retraumatisation.' (Introduction)
[Review] My Body Keeps Your Secrets Zoe Smith , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , December no. 28 2022; (p. 163 - 165)

— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
'Sometimes what hurts us the most is the aftermath, the everyday challenge of living in a body that has been damaged and disrespected and shamed’, Lucia Osborne-Crowley provocatively asserts in the opening chapter of her second non-fiction work, My Body Keeps Your Secrets (26). The recent #Me Too movement has focused on uplifting the voices of survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment, encouraging them to speak out about their experiences in order to demonstrate the prevalence of rape and the insidious culture of misogyny that male violence is unquestioningly constructed upon. Osborne-Crowley’s work shows the capacity and need for progression beyond attention centred around survivors’ experiences of the moment of rape and sexual harassment, focusing instead on ‘the years and years and years ... that come after the assault’ (25). My Body Keeps Your Secrets gives prominence to survivors’ experiences of exactly that, survival, and how they cope with both the aftermath of violence and abuse, and the impact that growing up in an oppressive society takes on female and non-binary bodies.'  (Introduction) 
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)
y separately published work icon At Home with Lucia Osborne-Crowley Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2021 23448132 2021 single work podcast interview

'Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist, essayist, writer, and legal researcher. Her debut was the 2020 memoir 'I Choose Elena', a work she has followed up in 2021 with 'My Body Keeps Your Secrets'.

'Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, Guardian, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Women's Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow and Meanjin.' (Production introduction)

y separately published work icon Live Recording : Lucia Osborne-Crowley in Conversation Zara McDonald (interviewer), 2021 23474624 2021 single work podcast interview

'Lucia Osborne-Crowley in conversation with Zara McDonald about Osborne-Crowley's latest work, My Body Keeps Your Secrets.'  (Production summary)

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