'This collection of essays is mature and far-reaching. A thoughtful and fresh reading experience. Lopesi is brave in confronting the personal, and innovative in her discussion and imagining a reworked society which is empowering for all'. – Jessie Nielson, Otago Daily Times
'Eye opening, thought provoking and stirring. Bleeding – as something integral to the experience of so many women – is a wonderfully “messy and sticky” theme.' – Sunday Star Times
'Although Lopesi invites the reader to join her at the table, she by no means gets up and pulls the chair out. By having her lean into her own messy tensions, we're able to better understand that the pathway to affirming identity is not a linear process. The questions Bloody Woman leaves unanswered ultimately create space for stories that are yet to be told.' – Rebecca Zhong, The Listener
'Struck by the sheer vānimonimo, expanse of time–space of your reasoning about gender and capitalist power structures, I bow to the work you have done, for yourself, but for us too. You cover so many bloody incredibly salient points that I KNOW your openness and generosity will reach into the next generations'. – Leafā Wilson, Pantograph Punch
'Bloody Woman, Lana’s collection of essays, is a vā in itself, holding precious insights, knowledge and wisdoms'. – Tusiata Avia, Pantograph Punch
'We are not used to asserting ourselves; however, Lana’s book celebrates this. Be the faikakala, the ka‘a, the Teine Sā – strong, unapologetic, bloody women. The powerful stubbornness of us, our blood and our stories – Bloody Woman is a must-read.' – Pelenakeke Brown, Pantograph Punch
'A book of personal essays about being a Sāmoan woman, living in the New Zealand diaspora. Part of her motivation to write the book was to speak into silences that exist because of shame.' – Tagata Pasifika
'Lana Lopesi’s collection of essays Bloody Woman combines personal memoir and flinty academic syntax to construct dreams and nightmares, to speak of hope and desperation, grief and joy. Both introspective and galaxy-broad, the essays deal with personal issues like Lopesi’s experience of having an abortion, and then being a young mother, of being part of the Samoan diaspora, being “bougie” and the trouble with being representative of a whole community, to cataloguing global movements in feminism, art, workers rights, reproductive rights and immigration.' – Emma Espiner, Newsroom
'Bloody Woman feels like it comes from an evolution for me, like a place of being at peace with myself and writing a book for me, and not others.' – Lana Lopesi and Faith Wilson, The Pantograph Punch
'A collection of essays that is a deeply personal exploration of [Lopesi's] experience of being Samoan and a woman. Lopesi says writing the book was an attempt to break a silence, and feels "terrifying but right".' – Radio New Zealand
'This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women’s experiences and the Pacific. businesses and creators'. – Janaye Henry and Leonie Hayden, The Spinoff
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