We're Going to Need More Wine - Gabrielle Union

"This is what I was looking for"

In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.

One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union—a forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic ’90s movies—instantly became the insightful, outspoken actress that Hollywood has been desperately awaiting. With honesty and heartbreaking wisdom, she revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault: "It is for you that I am speaking. This is real. We are real."

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the kind of book I was looking for when I started listening to Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist. This memoir It's funny, explicative, exciting, true and makes you think a little.

Gabrielle talks about her childhood, her failed marriage, his long lost friends, 10 things I hate about you, Prince, girl stuff, sex, parenthood, Heath Ledger, dogs, rape, cancer and all the thing that have affected, touched and passed by in her lifetime.

Just a really good book (or audiobook), I listened while I was working and It's really easy to follow while making other stuff.
All I can add it's that Union's voice it's the sweetest thing while reading.

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