Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, big beautiful female theory is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity isformed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. Without falling into a simple recovery narrative,these essays also resonate with humour, which gives a sense of delight and optimism in defiance of difficult circumstances andunfair patriarchal structures.With breathtaking honesty and fierce wit, Eloise Grills turns her life, her body and her mind into art, confronting what it meansto grow up in an increasingly unfathomable world.