"The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes."
- Maggie Georgiana Young
"I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see her blank, hazel eyes, and her..."
"My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my d..."
"Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man."
"My life views on sex, men, dating, and self-worth were sculpted with the unfiltered ramblings of a drunken misogynist."
"The prostate might as well have been a mythological creature like a unicorn or Leprechaun only acknowledged through whispery giggles among women brunching with their gay friends."
"Anal sex was my least favorite bedroom activity. Even through half a bottle of lube, the whole charade felt like pooping backwards. It was a negotiation token- something I begrudgingly did in exchange..."
"I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets."
"But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they’d conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration."
"We long for an intimate connection, but that longing makes us feel vulnerable. Therefore, we guard our hearts for self-preservation, which barricades that intimacy we are longing for. Casual sex is a ..."