I Still Am: a woman, pissed-off & curious by Su Friedrich
A fearless solo journey across Africa becomes a powerful exploration of identity and independence. A queer feminist memoir of travel, curiosity, and defiance.
Description
A journey across continents. A reckoning with identity. And a voice that refuses to be quiet.
In I Still Am: a woman, pissed-off & curious, acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich invites readers into a vivid, deeply personal chronicle of her five-month solo journey through North and West Africa in 1976. At just twenty-one, armed with curiosity and a camera, Friedrich sets out across deserts, cities, and borders—documenting not only the world around her, but the evolution of her own voice.
Told through journals, letters, and more than one hundred black-and-white images, the book unfolds as both travelogue and self-portrait. From hitching rides across the Sahara to navigating unfamiliar cultures and political unrest, Friedrich captures moments of connection, tension, humor, and revelation with striking immediacy.
But this is more than a record of places visited.
It is a story about becoming—about questioning expectations, confronting the weight of gender and identity, and carving out space in a world that doesn’t always make room. With wit, candor, and a restless spirit, Friedrich reflects on what it means to move through the world as a young, queer woman determined to see, feel, and understand everything.
Part memoir, part visual archive, and entirely uncompromising, I Still Am is a celebration of curiosity, defiance, and the enduring search for freedom.
Book Details
Author: Su Friedrich
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: March 24, 2026
ISBN: 1644215004
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