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bookWORM; Sasha Grey: liberty & individualism
Disc jockey Sasha Grey has always been a free-spirited kind of lady who refuses to let society define what she should be doing as an individual
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isc jockey Sasha Grey has always been a free-spirited kind of lady who refuses to let society define what she should be doing as an individual.
Grey made her big splash in the entertainment industry by becoming a pornstar just two months after her 18th birthday in 2006. Her supermodel looks made people question her decision to do porn at such a young age as they thought she could do modeling or become a mainstream film actress instead.
Grey dismissed speculation that the industry exploited her and stressed that she entered porn completely by her own rational choice.
After a few years in porn and a couple of appearances in mainstream films, Grey found solace behind the turntables and became a disc jockey. She also likes to do social activities, such as reading books to kindergarten children.
As for Grey's own tastes, what she likes to read represents her love of liberty and individualism.
' JP/Hans David Tampubolon
'Wetlands' by Charlotte Roche
I think it is one of the most grotesque but hilarious books I have read in a long time. It was such a quick read. It is so bizarre and the things like the internal monologues are so masculine.
We are not used to hearing a woman's voice in this way and that is why I really like it because it is like 'oh my God, these are the things that I think to myself but I would never say out loud' and she puts those things on paper. I think it is funnier that way. She kinda shows us that we are all weirdos on the inside.
'The Berlin Stories'
by Christopher Isherwood
I have really been always enamored by pre-war Berlin and this dancer and artist named Anita Berber. I was talking to a costume designer or a stylist a few years ago who recommended this particular book to me. He thought it would inspire me to read more and to discover more about Anita.
I really like that. It sort of shows, you know, modern society before it was destroyed and how free people were. I really like that.
People were so uninhibited and it was accepted ' it wasn't condemned or it wasn't looked down upon ' to be an individual. I wish we could go back to that time but it feels like we just regress.
