What’s insidious about this phrase is that it assumes we have stable and agreed upon definitions of fraught terms like “sex” and “power.” The phrase ushers us past the physicality of sex and violence all together in favor of an abstraction. Read more
“Something softens meSoftens my desireSomething helps me breatheSomething spills out my pores as lightSomethingIs like hope blanketing meSomething bleeds as me…”– excerpt from ‘So the Second Thing I Bought Was a Mirror’ by Aisha Sasha John I come from a culture where talking about most things are taboo. (Insert trope about conservative Asians here.) So when I first Read more
