Tag: important
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I’m Kickstarting Volume 1 of the “Tracy Queen” Graphic Novel!
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.
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Why Sex and Porn Matter
In a series of conversations, some of them with a troll on a Village Voice article about Stoya, and others after the fact with friends about my anger and passion on the subject of sex-positivity, I’ve realized that while my reasons for writing impassioned essays and graphic novels and making films and continually making myself…
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The Reddit Rape Thread: some thoughts from a victim
I was gonna do what I usually do and post some image I find on Google Images on the topic of silence about rape. I even Google Image searched “silence about rape” and found some powerful images. But I decided, instead, to post a picture of myself. Because guess what, world: I’ve been raped. And…
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Reflections on Going to the Gyno
I wonder what it’s like to be a gynecologist. I’m sure the experience varies wildly depending on your type of practice, geographic location, specialization, and so on, but every time I go to visit my gynecologist I just can’t help thinking that the job must be joyful and joyless at the same time. Joyless because…