Reclaiming My Eroticism After Sexual Assault October 11, 2019 by Tiffany Lee Leave a Comment Content note: This article discusses sexual violence at length. After my rape, I thought of my body as a series of open wounds and wounded openings sutured together. I had to learn how to rewrite the poems, the stories, the words I wrapped around my flesh. After certain types of trauma, sometimes the only way we can see our bodies is as spaces for harm, spaces for … [Read more...]
5 Conventionally Unattractive Parts of My Body that I Find Super Attractive October 27, 2017 by Gillian Brown Leave a Comment We all know how difficult it can be to feel attractive, when we are often made to feel like we are not. Whether it is advertising, mainstream media, or the meaner members of our family, it can seem like we are constantly bombarded with information on how unappealing certain features of our bodies are, and how we might go about ‘fixing’ them (for a ‘perfectly reasonable’ sum of … [Read more...]
