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Gender & Sexualityexpand_moreThe pumpkins are looking up my skirt, making orange a kind of festive.
We drove, talking fast, fast, fast. He was always going for my zipper.
She stopped, turned toward him, placed her hand on his chest.
Oh shit! I had that a while ago. Didn’t think I still did. So, so sorry.
Sex can be revelatory. Essential nature emerges in sex.
You’re feminist? Neither one of you. You just like getting into fights.
Praise the ease of it: how simple it is to tell the dog he loves her.
Fletcher was a squad leader. He ought to be able to get a girl.
All that existed was Louisa’s beauty—or Khin’s refashioning of it.
The success is deserved, I think: certainly it was not lightly gained.
Some days it seems like enough to look in the glass for glazed relief.
I watched to see how the others lived, not knowing I was the Other.
These days I watch the world go by and do not breathe life into it.
He would sneak into my room, we would have sex, he would sneak out.
Even Medusa was beautiful once, before the sea, snakes, stone. Any chimera is regal if you turn a certain way. Even Medusa was beautiful.
I sensed that a name defined who I was and would be in the future.
We didn’t think of ourselves as anything so grand as sex workers.
I love talking to girls. That’s why I’ve written so much about them.
“Nobody asked you to write.” Over time, I realized it was a magic key.
We wondered at their habits and gave them little poems for names.
Here’s the world, sweetheart. One word as small & large as a father.
I hear pleasure ringing, and I wonder what led us to this moment.
Navigating the trailer park at night felt like a raid on a strange village.
Ever since she believed he was cheating, she felt erotically obsessed.
She’d ransacked his heart the moment she unlocked the door.
my grandparents lay in a room listening to their legs rub together
She takes her shirt at the waist and pulls it up slowly: her hips, belly, bra.
our hands are full of those women tricked or transformed.
His chest rose and fell softly, in time, it seemed, to the song.
so easily impressed when wet / so easy / to see through when turned / off