An evening with TFBC and Jess Bacon!
About this Event
🎉 Join us for a special evening with Jess Bacon! 🎉
Come along on Tuesday 14 July to Gower Street Waterstones for what is going to be a gorgeous evening with Jess Bacon, where we discuss her debut non-fiction title, I'm Just a Girl 💖📖 Expect wonderful conversations, insights into Jess' life, and plenty of bookish chat!
✨ Event Details ✨
📅 Date: Tuesday 14 July
⏰ Time: 6:45–9:00pm
📍 Location: Gower Street Waterstones, 82 Gower St, London WC1E 6EQ
☕ Food & Drinks:
The café will be open until 8:00pm, so you can grab drinks and refreshments during the evening 🍰🥤
📚 Book Purchases:
Copies of I'm Just a Girl will be available to buy at the venue on the night
🎟️ Refunds & Tickets:
While we’re unable to offer refunds, if you can’t make it, your ticket can be transferred to a future event
✨ Don’t miss out on this exciting literary evening — we can’t wait to see you there! ✨
About Jess Bacon:
Jess is an author, journalist and creator based in Cambridgeshire, who covers film, TV and pop culture, and the representation of women on-screen.
She has written for the likes of Stylist, Glamour, The Guardian, Radio Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Elle and Dazed, as well as interviewed numerous actors, directors and creatives. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her at the cinema, oversharing her life on the internet, devouring the latest must-read romantasy or spending time with her family and friends.
About I'm Just a Girl:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up . . .
Over the past decade, girlhood has repainted the cultural landscape pink. From Taylor Swift’s Eras tour to Barbiemania, this nostalgia for girlhood has become a billion-dollar business, seen in the music we listen to, the clothes we wear and the 2000s movies (and their long-awaited sequels) we watch on repeat.
But at a time when women’s rights are being rewritten, this resurgence in girlhood is complicated. Women are caught between a genuine desire to relive the wild freedom, joy and safety found in girlhood, while facing an ever-growing pressure to hold onto their youth. The world demands women continue to look like girls, yet they are rarely given the space to actually be girls.
In I’m Just a Girl, journalist Jess Bacon introduces readers to the ‘second girlhood’, the extended adolescence that allows us to recover the part of ourselves we left behind. Reconnecting with our inner girl is an empowering act of rebellion. It offers a return to creativity and play that can ultimately improve our relationships, our mental wellbeing and establish a renewed sense of self. It is a reclaiming of what was once taken from us.
For far too long we have been presented with a false choice between womanhood and girlhood – this book is a celebration of a new way of being where we can fully embrace both.
Ticket prices:
Tickets for this event range from £6-20. If you cannot afford them then just drop us an email at: [email protected] and we'll see what we can do.
Refund policy:
We are over the moon that our events are becoming so popular, so because of that we have made are operating a no refund policy. We are more than happy for you to use your ticket for a future book club, or to give your ticket to a fellow book club member, but as of 2024 - we will no longer giving refunds. Apologies in advance!
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We welcome feminists from all walks of life and backgrounds, and this group is open to everyone - we want this to be a fully inclusive space;
You don’t need to be an ‘expert feminist’ (whatever that means) to be involved - we want to read books that everyone can enjoy, and that cater to people’s different experiences and understandings of feminism;
This is primarily a social space, for meeting and getting to know like-minded people - so while feminism can be a heavy topic, we hope to keep this more on the fun side;
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Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 7.21 to GBP 22.38
