FROM CHAPTER 16 OF THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN READ

“This is what happens when women read.
They notice systems of oppression. They can articulate those systems and challenge them. They can poke holes in them, leave them.”

This Is What Happens When Women Read

A memoir about the books she wasn’t supposed to read, and the life she found on the other side of them. Julianna Glasse spent years inside a repressive religious world that prized certainty over questions. This is the account of how reading undid that, and what it cost to walk out. Publishing worldwide October 2026.

Catch Her Live

“A meaningful and powerful life will be marked by learning.”

© Julianna Glasse 2026