Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman.

Chapter 1: After the recent events in Australia's Parliament house, Jamila and Astrid threw what they were going to talk about out the window and instead made space to recognise the pain of survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse.

Chapter 2: Astrid takes us back to Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.

Chapter 3: Jamila grows emotional over The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

Recommendations: Jamila and Astrid recommend books by survivors, and books written by journalists about survivors. These are some of the books that have affected them deeply, and there are many more books by survivors that they would love you to recommend to them.

• Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Chanel Miller's Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story
• Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull: A memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back
• Not that Bad: Dispatches from rape culture edited by Roxanne Gay
• She Said: Breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
• Catch and Kill: Lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators by Ronan Farrow
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church -The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight by the investigative staff of The Boston Globe
• Lucia Osborne-Crowley's I Choose Elena
• Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
• Gemma Carey's No Matter Our Wreckage: A memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love.

Content warning: This interview contains references to sexual assault and sexual abuse. 

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This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

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