Conversations at the Wartime Cafe
I just returned from reading a short piece I wrote for inclusion in my fellow McSweeney’s alum Sean Labrador Y Manzano’s anthology, Conversations At the Wartime Cafe. A few of
Category: Writing Rules
Behemoth
Well, if it’s not a writer’s duty to post videos of herself reading her writing, then I don’t know what is. But… man, I really hate watching myself on video.
Naomi Wolf Annoys Me Again
Oh, Naomi. We are gonna just keep doing this, aren’t we? Ah, well, why not? After all, every superhero needs a supervillain in order to really thrive. I’m not sure,
Big-Time Announcement About My Big-Time Art Show!
Big news, my dearies! Remember that post I wrote a while back about porn is and is not art at the same time? Well I wasn’t just examining the nature
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Linkyamory: This is Serious
A very worthwhile call for essays over at QLit: Rejecting the Bedroom: Sex and Sexuality as a Site of Queer Resistance and Space. Anyone with a bent toward queer theory
Why Anti-Porn Ideology is Totally Wrong-Headed
Sighh…. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole Naomi Wolf anti-porn line of reasoning, and though I have many arguments against it on small levels, it suddenly
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Logical Fallacy #2 (Ok Maybe Not a Fallacy, but Still Bad Writing)
More on Naomi Wolf’s ridiculous “Is pornography driving men crazy?” article, which has now been reposted on HuffPo. Thank goodness, the commenters there are taking her to the cleaners for
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Logical Fallacy #1
Ok, Naomi Wolf. Let’s discuss some of this theory you’re working with over on Al Jazeera. One thing at a time. There are so many issues I see in what
The Woman’s POV Part IV
I’m proud (kind of) to present my last in a four-part series on Madison Young’s TheWomansPOV.com about searching for the woman’s POV in porn. I wrote the series over the
Filament and Thigh Strength
First things first: Filament magazine is having an open erotic fiction contest! Filament magazine is THE BOMB–they’re a British “lady mag” that focuses on the female gaze in eroticizing and