AUDIOBOOK RELEASE: Get Empowered

A Practical Guide to Thrive, Heal, and Embrace Your Confidence in a Sexist World

GET EMPOWERED was a special joy to record. It’s an inclusive, intersectional feminist, trauma-informed, martial-arts minded guide to understanding gender-based violence and how to defend against it …and to heal from it.

GET EMPOWERED doubles as a workbook, focusing on Empowerment Self-Defense, understanding how intersecting systems of oppression contribute to gender-based violence, and ultimately how to empower oneself in a world that too often feels designed to cause us — women & femmes, LGBTQIA+ folx, BIPOC, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations — harm (and why we are "vulnerable" to begin with!).

I feel really appropriately cast in this book because it embraces as a baseline inclusivity, diversity, and intersectionality. As a Transfeminine, Queer PoC, martial artist, and sex-positive consent advocate who facilitates workshops on boundaries, consent, and DEIB, the content in the book was both familiar territory to me and inspiration for more exercises and educational points to bring to future workshops. I felt really at home stepping into the narrative voice of the authors Nadia Telsey & Lauren R. Taylor. And I feel proud to be able to combine my passion for art/acting/narration with the anti-racism, intersectional feminism, self-defense, self-care, and empowerment in this book.

It was also great to reunite with director Karlyn Daigle and producer Nithya Rajendran; we all worked together on QUEER POWER too! Thanks also to engineer LesD and the folks at The Invisible Studios.

🖤🤎❤🧡💛💚💙💜 { progress rainbow heart emojis }

Cheers!

Nicky

FYI: I am an affiliate for Pozotron! Pozotron (what I call “good robot” AI) has helped me save hours in my workflow. If you wanna give it a go, you can sign up here and receive 7 hours of free proofing!