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Posts by: Jera Brown

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Cost of Intimacy

By Jera Brown

June 3rd, 2017

Chasing intimacy can feel cheap—and yet intimacy we pay for can be meaningful. I find traditional therapy as awkward as sex, exposing my emotional self like I expose my body.

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Tags: anxiety, binge eating, Bloomington, break-ups, Chicago, Christianity, closure, crying, depression, erotic massage, escorts, fathers and daughters, God, grief, Holly Hunter, Intimacy, Jera Brown, Living Out Loud, mothers and daughters, relationships, religion, Sex, sexuality, shame, therapist, therapy

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jera Brown

By Jera Brown

June 14th, 2016

I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.

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Tags: (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, androgynous, body image, buddhism, buddhist, butch, Charles D'Ambrosio, choking, Christianity, creative nonfiction, dating, dildo, dominant, dungeon, emotional eating, essays, experimentation, fear, femme, fitness, gender, Gender Identity, gender roles, God, graduate school, James Carse, Jera Brown, journaling, kink, kinky, literary essay, Marie Claire, meditation, MFA, Michel de Montaigne, mohawk, pagan, pegging, polyamorous, polyamory, queer, relationships, religion, self-acceptance, Sex, sexuality, shame, spirituality, tarot, theology, tomboy, tomboy femme, vogue, Weight loss, Women's Issues

Jera Brown writes about being a queer, kinky, polyamorous Christian on her blog Church of the Scarlet Letter. She also edits Sacred and Subversive, a multifaith site offering queer perspectives on the future of faith communities. She is seeking representation for her memoir about her sexual/spiritual journey exploring psychotherapy and sex work.

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