Category: Books
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Book Review – QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology
“An unexamined public kiss is a privilege, enjoyed by those who are not marked out as the “other” by a stranger’s gaze. For me, a kiss is a political act of lustful resistance, whether I want it to be or not because it highlights those things people don’t want to think about let alone talk…
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Book Review: CRIPTIQUES
I cannot talk about illness and how it affects me, without mentioning how it is tied to my immigration status, or my choices and access as a queer upper class woman. The axes of benefits and struggles at which I find myself leads to a particular set of options. From there, I make choices. There,…
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Book Review: Hot, Wet, and Shaking by Kaleigh Trace
Honesty, self-awareness, a wicked sense of humour, an unflinching sense of the ridiculous. You generally need all of these to be able to talk as candidly about your sex life as Kaleigh Trace has done in Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex. These essays are about a lot more than…