WOMXN: Sticks and Stones: Acrostics and Poems to Reclaim the Words that Have Hurt Us

Sticks and Stones is a powerful reclamation of the slurs and insults thrown at women for centuries, offering a remedy for healing wounds and empowering women to be their true selves. It is illustrated by Margaux Carpentier, who creates pictures using a symbolic language, and is inspired by the colors of the world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 19 August 2021
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

There are an overwhelming number of words, insults, labels, and boxes that are used to package and discard women. These words are often coined by men, and their significance is a topic that is increasingly being discussed by women worldwide. We are slowly but surely making it clear that there is no man in womxn. We are erasing him and rewriting ourselves back in, and we deserve a suffix that is free from patriarchal roots. Therefore, from this point forward, we shall be known as WOMXN.

Sticks and Stones is a powerful reclaiming of the slurs and insults that have been hurled at women for centuries. It serves as a rectification of wrongs, a rewriting of sexist, belittling, and shaming language. It is a tool for breaking free from the stereotypes and impossible standards that have confined women, transforming them into messages of resilience and resolve. Moreover, it is a rallying call for change, healing, and empowerment.

It takes the words, slurs, insults, and labels that are used to demean women on a daily basis and deconstructs them, tearing them apart. It transmutes and rewrites these words, sometimes with all of the pain they evoke, sometimes in the form of positive affirmations, mantras, and poems, all told in acrostics. With their underlying meditative rhythms, these acrostics also serve as a remedy.

A remedy for healing wounds and empowering women to have the confidence to be their true selves. You can dip in and out, or read it cover to cover. You can come back to, and work through, any words that resonate with you. Lexy also offers clearing meditations at the back of the book

The book to help you tackle the words that hurt you the most, helping to remove them from your past, present, and future.

This title is illustrated by the hugely talented illustrator and print maker Margaux Carpentier. Margaux creates pictures using a symbolic form of symbolism.

Weight: 346g
Dimension: 138 x 182 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780753734537