Status Updates From We Were Witches: A Novel

i’ll be sad to finish

i fear this may be my new favorite book

ariel gore i love you

From the Acknowledgements: “Love and care, it turns out—love and care and public art—are the antidotes to shame.”

And one explanation for that showing up could be interpreted as love.

the talk-show hosts said that Antioch’s consent rules would mean the death of romantic spontaneity.
As if rape were romantic.
As if rape were spontaneous.

Very few people in power really care about other people’s sexuality.
They care about money. But shaming sexuality is easier because that realm is so vulnerable. And of course if you control sexuality, that’s power that can be transmuted into more money.