Remember Gillian Anderson enjoying FBI Special Agent Dana Scully within the TV collection The X-Files? Or British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown?
The award-winning movie, tv and theatre actor, producer, activist and writer has now introduced a significant new undertaking that can chronicle the intercourse lives of girls from world wide. Anderson now stars within the hit Netflix present “Sex Education“.
Inspired by the revolutionary bestseller “My Secret Garden” compiled by Nancy Friday and first printed in 1973, Gillian Anderson is inviting letters from all girls to disclose their sexual fantasies.
These letters will likely be included anonymously in a generation-defining e-book, to be printed by Bloomsbury, and will likely be an expansive and revelatory portrait of girls’s sexuality and what it means to be a lady immediately.
From the wild to the mundane, Gillian Anderson is inviting girls to disclose their secret fantasies, and be part of an inclusive, intersectional new basic for the twenty first century.
Anderson says: “As girls, we all know that intercourse is about extra than simply intercourse. But so many people don’t speak about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies stay locked away within us, till somebody comes together with the important thing.
“Here is the important thing. I need to hear from you. This will likely be an nameless, revelatory e-book compiling your letters to me to discover how girls take into consideration intercourse. Because after we speak about intercourse, we speak about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, equity and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and ache.
“Is there a fantasy you’ve by no means instructed anybody about?
“Something you’d share with solely essentially the most trusted of confidants, if anybody in any respect? Wherever you come from, whomever you do or don’t sleep with, whether or not you’re eighteen or eighty: I need to hear from you.
“Write to me, starting your letter Dear Gillian.”
Details on how one can enter could be discovered at www.deargillian.com. Submissions are open until February 28, 23:59 GMT.
Alexis Kirschbaum, Head, Bloomsbury Trade, says: “I have always been interested in the private lives and private fantasies of women, and in my publishing I have sought to bring these narratives to cultural prominence. I have also been aware in publishing these books of the importance of how these fantasies are told, protected, characterised and curated; that is, how women can be free in their expression of sexual desire.”
Kirschbaum added: “To publish a book in which women’s desires are protected and taken seriously, I realised partnering with a public figure who embodied these values would be crucial. Gillian Anderson’s editorship will help us draw in a wide-range of letters from all corners of the world, and I cannot wait to read the letters she chooses to include in her collection.”
Among different honours, Gillian Anderson has received Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, a BIFA and an Evening Standard Theatre Award.
In 2016, Anderson was awarded an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her providers to drama. She lives in London.
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