A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated

Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she'd drunkenly 'done a shit in the sink.' 'She's not a girl if she did that,' said one to the other. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they?d thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed.For A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook postsplus dozens more from an expanded call for submissionsto create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.. One day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Using anecdotes collected from hundreds of anonymous sources, this gleefully disgusting illustrated book rewrites our definition of femininity. How many things had her friends done that meant they 'weren't girls?' She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their 'unladylike' behaviors. We sniff our knickers; we bite our own toenails; we laboriously dig out ingrown hairs: Women aren't as ladylike as people would like to imagine. 'She may have a vagina, but she's not a girl.'This exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined: about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas

Hallelujah I'm a Bum, a book of Callie Garnett's poems and Tallulah's illustrations, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. Her poetry has been published in Poems by Sunday and Coldfront magazine. Tallulah Pomeroy is an English writer, illustrator, and artist. She has apprenticed at Ugly Duckling Presse and at Enchanted Lion Books, and is the in-house illustr

Hallelujah I'm a Bum, a book of Callie Garnett's poems and Tallulah's illustrations, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. Her poetry has been published in Poems by Sunday and Coldfront magazine. About the AuthorTallulah Pomeroy is an English writer, illustrator, and artist. She has apprenticed at Ugly Duckling Presse and at Enchanted Lion Books, and is the in-house illustrator of Catapult magazine.