Sluts | May Book of the Month – The Turnaround Blog

If you’re looking for a book to disappear into, look no further than our May Book of the Month: Sluts, edited by Michelle Tea.

Chocker-block full of a killer line-up, this anthology beholds both fiction and nonfiction riddled with the theme of, you guessed it, sluts, sluttery, and the lack thereof.

While work has been done since the 1990’s to repackage and reclaim the word ‘sluts’, the word didn’t truly take off as a liberated sentiment until only recently due to online culture. ‘In my slut era’ and ‘I’m a [book] slut,’ or insert your passion of choice, are buzzwords that have ownership over what used to be a derogatory term and incite both excitement and autonomy. The anthology’s opening piece, ‘Slut Eras’ by Amanda Montell, delves into the history of the word and its changes in the lexicon of modern culture. Standing as a preface for the book, we then dive into stories of online sex workers, Viagra, the straight fetishization of gay bars and cultures, Covid-19 and its impact on sex lives, and much, much more.

Each and every piece is compulsively readable and difficult to put down, and is told from a vast array of different perspectives in specific moments and times. The anthology offers the lens that sex, sexuality and slutdom, sluttery, slutship, or whatever you want to call it, is a sacred act that is unique to each and every one, which can only have a liberating and entrancing effect on the reader.

‘The slut is a shaman…
Sluts are healers…
The slut is a planeswalker…
Sluts are shepherds of life…
A slut is a know-it-all.’

The perfect book to either devour whole or dip in and out of, Sluts is for the frolicsome and redemptive, those looking to have fun, be moved, and have a devilishly good time. You won’t regret picking up this magnetic forcefield.