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The Origin of Pain
Or, The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me – Yet! Or, How the U.S. Health System Fucks You Up, Then Leaves You High and Dry Or, The Insidious Ways Doctors Weaponize Women’s…
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Guest Post: Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent
I’m thrilled to present a guest post from my friend Stephanie Parent – a fantastic writer, poet, and author of the novel THE BRIARS (which I cannot recommend enough). Today, she’s discussing the…
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Favorite (Mostly Queer) Films of 2023
While the horror pickings were, in my opinion, a bit slim this year, 2023 was a banner year for being queer in film. A year so good that Barbie and Bottoms didn’t even…
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Pelvic Floor PT 101: What Is Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Like?
I’ve mentioned in the past (here and here) that several years ago I was diagnosed with vulvodynia and vaginismus – two disorders that often go hand-in-hand. Vulvodynia makes the vagina extremely sensitive to…
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On Britney’s Instagram, Selfies & the Mercurial Need to Be Perceived
I spend a fair amount of time defending women’s selfies in my head. Whenever I see comments on Instagram photos accusing women of “just wanting attention” or being “attention whores” because of the…
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Review: WeVibe Melt, Compared to Womanizer Starlet & Dame Aer
I’ve wanted a WeVibe Melt for years. I was dying to bring the (magically, orgasmically) unique sensations of a suction toy into partnered sex, but the other ones I have just don’t work…
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Revisiting CAM Five Years Later
I was just rewatching the brilliant film CAM (2018) yesterday – about a camgirl whose identity is stolen – and I was struck by how incredibly prescient the movie was when it first…
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Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume
“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That quote is uttered by…
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Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You
The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne (and her most…
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Love in the End Times: Two Poems
You may not know this, but sometimes I also write poetry; I even have a poetry book you can buy if you’re interested. Here are two poems about love and the end times,…