feminism

I'm Kickstarting the first issue of my epic, sex-positive, feminist graphic novel, Tracy Queen. I am really excited, and also extremely nervous. It feels like asking for a lot. So I thought I'd tell my blog readers why it also feels incredibly important. [...continue...]

Hello, world! It is officially the conspicuous consumption...er...holiday season! I'm using that fact to shamelessly promote my books! I only feel slightly bad about it, because I believe that they make excellent gifts for sex-positive folks who like nonfiction or comics, and porn. So, hey! Buy my books! [...continue...]

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Hello, darlings! Meet me tonight at Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula for a live reading and book signing! I’ll be reading from the book starting around 7:00 pm, answering questions, signing hardcovers of Watching Porn, and hopefully drinking wine. Can’t wait to [...continue...]

I will be celebrating the launch of "Watching Porn" with the coolest book launch party ever: a panel discussion at the Strand bookstore in New York City with some truly incredible humans! [...continue...]

Image courtesy Erika Lust My darlings, I am so happy to be able to present to you a full-length interview that I recently conducted with the amazing, talented, crazy-smart, gorgeous, utterly effervescent feminist erotic filmmaker, Erika Lust! I contacted her when researching my recent article about [...continue...]

Cytherea, I am a feminist...I am so deeply, deeply sorry about what happened to you, and I am even more sorry that the way I learned about it was by way of hateful groups of people who seek to leverage your experience to support their personal politics. [...continue...]

I wrote an article about Shia LaBeouf’s horrible experience of being raped during his art show for Luna Luna, and I would really, really appreciate it if you would take some time to read it and offer some thoughts. It’s super, super important that we show respect and empathy to anyone [...continue...]

“It sometimes feels like, ‘Erotica is what I get off to. Porn is what you get off to.’" [...continue...]

The past few weeks I've been absolutely overwhelmed by all of the stuff that's pertinent to this blog, and that's a great thing! There are a lot of very public conversations going on about things that are important to me, mostly in the arena of sex-positivity, body-positivity, street harassment, and feminism in general. Hooray! [...continue...]

A few big pop culture items have crossed my radar this week, which is remarkable given that I’ve been sick and grumpy and menstruating and it’s cold and rainy outside. Frankly, I think it’s marvelous that I’ve managed to do anything aside from eat Doritos in sweatpants and [...continue...]