HOLLY WHITAKER
- Words Elle Hunt
- Photos Hannah Rosa Lewis-Lopes
Holly Whitaker on rethinking drinking.
- Words Elle Hunt
- Photos Hannah Rosa Lewis-Lopes
- Set Design & Florals Jacqui Jacques.
- Hair & Makeup Erica Long
( 1 ) Many AA participants have taken umbrage with Whitaker's claims that the organization is patriarchal—particularly given that today's AA is non- hierarchical, run by diverse groups of neighborhood volunteers and free to attend.
For more than a decade, Holly Whitaker has been shaping the way we think about sobriety. Through the 2010s, she wrote a blog, Hip Sobriety, informed by her own experience of alcohol use disorder, and launched a recovery program: Hip Sobriety School. Her 2019 book, Quit Like a Woman, is a New York Times bestseller and has sold 600,000 copies worldwide, having been translated into six languages.
( 1 ) Many AA participants have taken umbrage with Whitaker's claims that the organization is patriarchal—particularly given that today's AA is non- hierarchical, run by diverse groups of neighborhood volunteers and free to attend.
