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Marital Piss

  • Cory Albertson
  • June 25, 2020
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Soft Parts

  • Sarah Kasbeer
  • March 30, 2020
What appealed to me most about furry culture was how it created a space for softness to be worn on the outside.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace

  • Marissa Korbel
  • December 17, 2019
What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.
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Lady Killers and Our Obsession with Murder: Talking with Tori Telfer

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 16, 2017
Tori Telfer discusses her first book Lady Killers and the fragile "social saran wrap" that keeps us all from killing each other.
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  • (K)ink: Writing While Deviant
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Kirsten Irving

  • Kirsten Irving
  • June 20, 2017
The pressure to prove ourselves can have a distorting effect, causing us to doubt our instincts in favor of following others we perceive to be experts or “genuine.”
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Claire Rudy Foster

  • Claire Rudy Foster
  • April 20, 2017
It is about the essential parts of story. The bones. The steel rods and rings. The skin that goes white with tension. Tolerating that kind of discomfort takes practice, yes, but it is exhilarating.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: E. A. Longfellow

  • Eric Longfellow
  • February 21, 2017
The way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.
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Macho Prey: Homophobia and Unlikely Victims in Tickled

  • Heather White
  • December 8, 2016
The film only grazes the issue, but homophobia is the fuel of the harassment that the targets face.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Dream of Androgyny

  • Deborah A. Lott
  • April 17, 2016
As Ty batted his eyelashes at me, a neon sign flashed male-female, female-male. The duality was intoxicating.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Bruce Owens Grimm

  • Bruce Owens Grimm
  • March 29, 2016
The more secrets I wrote about, the fewer I wanted to keep. And the more secrets I made public through my writing, the more I gained.
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Shark’s Teeth

  • Casey Calvert
  • December 29, 2015
My kink used to be my Deepest Darkest secret, and now it is an integrated part of my everyday life.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Michael Broder

  • Michael Broder
  • October 13, 2015
If I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?
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