- Hey everyone, welcome to day three
of Doing It video week, where I'm making daily videos
in the lead up to the publication of my book,
"Doing It," on the sixth of April.
I will leave a link below where you can go pre-order it.
I will also leave links in the description
to where you can get tickets to my live show,
because I'm going on tour the week after publication
with Lucy Moon, and London is sold out
but there are still tickets available for Manchester
and Birmingham, so links in the description.
Also, for the final day of these daily videos,
on publication day, sixth of April,
I'm going to be doing a live stream four until five PM,
UK time on this YouTube channel,
so hopefully, see you there.
In this video, I just wanted to talk about,
sing praise, and shout out all of the amazing people
who contributed to this book, all
of the people that wrote pieces for my book.
So, there are 16 people total who
wrote guest pieces for this book.
Two of them are anonymous, so I will only be talking
about 14 of these lovely, lovely people.
The reason that I got guest contributors
was to fill gaps in my knowledge and experience
of things that I felt like I couldn't personally talk about,
or things that I felt someone else's expertise
was best to demonstrate or explain a certain topic.
My book smells good, I'm so happy that my book
is like a good smelling book, you know?
Okay, let's talk about these amazing people.
I have my list, so I don't forget anybody.
I'm also going to talk a bit about what they wrote
for the book, without giving away any spoilers.
The first person is Holly Bourne, who is an author.
You may recognise her name from The Spinster Club Series,
and she's also featured on this channel a couple of times.
Me and Holly used to work at the same youth charity together
and that's how we met, our desks were next to each other,
and we bonded over feminism, Harry Potter,
and Taylor Swift, as you do.
Holly was the relationships advisor at the charity,
and so I asked her to write a piece
about healthy relationships and how romance movies
might not necessarily depict what romance really is,
and she uses a brilliant analogy that involves worm-tale.
So, you'll just have to see what that is in the book.
The next person is another author, Juno Dawson,
who's written a piece in the book on being trans,
as she came out as trans a couple years ago.
She also has a book coming out this year
called "The Gender Games," which is one
of the books we are reading for The Banging Book-club,
and she interviewed me for a part of it,
so I feature in her book, and she
features in my book, it's great.
Riley Dennis has also written a piece
on her experience as being trans, more specifically,
what it's like dating whilst being trans.
Riley is an amazing YouTuber, I will link
her channel in the description.
She makes loads of videos about feminism, gender, sexuality,
politics, all of that good stuff, definitely check her out.
Next, my friend Roley has written a piece
on being gender fluid, what that means,
what it means to him, his identity, and all of that stuff.
He also has a YouTube channel which I will link
in the description, you should go check it out,
for loads of just random fun stuff,
and gender sexuality stuff, it's great.
The wonderful Rowan Ellis has written a piece
on her experiences as a queer woman.
I would highly recommend you go
check out her YouTube channel.
She makes amazing videos all about feminism,
LGBT issues, and pop culture, and how they interact
with eachother, and I always learn so much from her channel.
My Canadian bae, Alayna Fender
has written a piece on bisexuality.
You may recognise her because we've made
a tonne of videos together in the past.
And you should go check out her YouTube channel as well.
She does incredible videos on sexuality
and mental health and food, it's great.
Amelia Morris has written a piece on being asexual,
and I haven't actually met Amelia.
When I was writing this book, I knew that I wanted
someone who was asexual to write
about their experiences because that's something
that I just have no personal experience with.
That I don't really know and I wanted
someone to share their voice on the topic.
And then I realised, at least to my knowledge,
I didn't know any asexual people.
So I went on a little hunt and I found Amelia,
and she has a great YouTube channel,
and I will link that in the description.
But yeah, hopefully I'll get to meet
Amelia soon and give her a big thank you in person.
Next, Ash Hardell wrote a piece all about labels
and identity because that is her brain child.
She absolutely loves talking about that stuff.
And she wrote a whole book on it, "The ABC's Of LGBT+".
Her whole channel explores loads
of different LGBT identities and labels.
I would highly recommend you check it out.
She also came to London recently and we filmed
a bunch of videos together, and I love her dearly.
Ricky Pointer, who is a deaf YouTuber,
wrote a guest piece for my book all on consent in deafness.
So, how it works in the bedroom,
giving, receiving consent, whilst being deaf
or having a partner who is deaf.
She makes loads of great videos, too,
a lot about deafness, and I'll link
everybody's channels in the description.
So you just go check all of them out.
Kate Parker, who is a barrister,
wrote two pieces for my book, one on consent
and the law, and the other on sexting and the law.
I first met Kate because she runs this project
called, "The School's Consent Project",
where her and a bunch of other barristers
go into schools and basically give workshops
and teach teenagers about consent.
She emailed me about the project and asking
if we could work together in some way
and I ended up shadowing a couple sessions and just
watching and seeing how it was done and learnt so much.
Her project is great, I will link
the website in the description if you want
to request them for your school.
And her contributions to the book are super helpful,
and I learnt so much from them, too.
The absolutely incredible Erika Lust has written
a piece in this book, in the section on porn.
Erika Lust is an erotic film director,
and actually last summer me and Melanie
got to go to Barcelona and watch her direct a film.
And we were on set for this erotic film, and it was amazing.
So, Erika makes ethical feminist porn
and I asked her to write in the book,
a bit about what that means and the work that she does.
My absolutely gorgeous friend Calum McSwiggan
has written a couple of pieces for the book, too.
Stuff on body image, like penis size and muscles.
Calum also has a great LGBT lifestyle YouTube channel
which you should go and check out.
Also we've done a bunch of videos together.
And then we have Michelle Elman
who has written a piece on body image and her scars.
I actually met Michelle a year or two ago,
because she emailed me about her body positivity project,
"Mind Set For Life," and we met up for lunch,
and just chatted loads and loads and loads about it.
I am so happy that she is in this book,
talking about her story, cause it is an incredible story.
And then last but certainly not least,
Jimmy Hill has written a piece on male body image.
Jimmy is a fellow YouTube friend
of mine, he has a hilarious channel.
And a while ago, whilst I was writing this book,
he made a video about male body image.
And I realised that wasn't properly represented
in my book at all because I was kind of talking
from my female point of view, and we often,
really talk about female body image and
forget that men have body issues, too.
So Jimmy has written an amazing piece
about that, and his experiences.
Alright, that is it, thank you so much
to all of the people who wrote pieces for my book.
I really think that they add so much to it.
And I hope that it really helps the people
who read the book because it gives them more experiences
and more voices and people that they could
potentially relate to and it could help them.
Thank you guys so much for watching, don't forget
to pre-order my book, give the video a thumb's-up,
and I will see you in tomorrow's video, bye!
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