Dear Spreading Your Wings Family!
I’ve been waiting for news worthy of filling your inboxes and that news is finally here:
We are up and running! Spreading Your Wings (the English version) is finally published and ready for purchase online on our publisher’s website!
https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/spreading-your-wings/
Our comic is presently on sale for 30% off of the normal market price as part of our new book launch. So anyone can buy it now at Rs.380 (about $5). Anyone buying 5 or more books receives an even greater discount, in addition to schools, NGOs, and libraries interested in purchasing Spreading Your Wings.
If anyone is concerned about price, I urge them to write us at SpreadingYourWingsComic@gmail.com. We will find a way to ensure price isn’t an obstacle to accessing our body-positive resource.
On Monday, Zubaan sent a newsletter about the book’s launch and they’ve begun sharing the news on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram platforms (Link #1 & Link #2).
I hope you won’t hesitate to spread the word with us!
In the months to come, our book will be in book stores and on Amazon, it will be reviewed and featured in online publications, and most importantly it will begin serving the population it was written for: young women across India. Members of our team have already formed relationships with organizations throughout India who are interested in utilizing the book. We remain determined that this book reaches 20,000 girls in its first year of publishing.
Ultimately, I wrote Spreading Your Wings for the girls I had the pleasure of working with in 2015. They put their faith in me to one day provide them a resource like this. As corny as it is to say, I think of their faces each day and tried to infuse some of their beautiful personalities into the book. This book is meant to address the often-overlooked problems that they face and also contain characters that these girls can actually see themselves in. This work is dedicated to them, and I strongly believe this book is their birthright.
Our Hindi version will be the key to reaching the girls for whom the book is written. So it’s wonderful to share that the translation of the Hindi version has been completed. Now, we’re in the midst of proofreading, which will be followed by inputting all the Hindi into the speech bubbles. After that, we will move to the 6 week printing process of the first 1,000 copies. Though the timeline has proven hard to predict, we are working towards the Hindi Spreading Your Wings being available come September.
Lastly, a big thank you for your continued support, your patience this past year, and your commitment to this shared goal: globally shedding the shame associated with menstruation so we can begin revaluing, reclaiming, and advocating for true care of the female body (and it’s autonomy).
Lots of gratitude and love,
Ariana Abadian-Heifetz
