Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wants to talk to boys and their fears

World-renowned author Chimamanda Adichie wants to talk to young men about their wants and fears as they relate to how they perceive.

The Purple Hibiscus author made reveals this to in an interview with Violet magazine’s Sarah Sophie Flicker. The Nigerian author and outspoke feminist touched on a number of issues including “challenges affecting real change, why she now wants to speak to boys, and the need to lift the veil of shame around abortion.”

Here is some of Chimamanda’s thought process:

“I’m used to talking to young women, but I want to talk to young me. I want to know when that change happens… I want to know: when do they start thinking of girls and women in a particular kind of way? When do they start to think they’re kind of entitled to women’s bodies? What is it that scares them, because I really think there is a lot of fear in me.”

Her interview is published in Violet’s special edition Violet Book dedicated to “women and their work – as mothers, lovers, agitators, and makers – in all their complexity and glory.”

In addition to Chimamanda, four other women were included in the new edition of the Violet Book. The women include actresses Keira Knightley, Natasha Lyonne, Awkwafina and Zoe Kazan

The magazine described them as women who are “rewriting the scripts they’ve been given – literally and figuratively.”