My head is reeling

[rmd]

I think I just read some kind of feminist trifecta of lighting bolt in written form

• From Carmen Maria Machado: The Husband Stitch
• From Jane Dykema: What I Don't Tell My Students About the Husband Stitch
• And from the excellent Laurie Penny: The Horizon of Desire

That's a bunch of stuff about consent and consent culture and rape culture so, you know, tread carefully if that's a thing for you. Meanwhile, my head is reeling after reading the three of them in quick succession.

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[drwex]

Yeah, that's a heavy lot. I love that story and understand why her male students are silent in class. I have never heard of the "husband stitch" and I am now so very glad that our GYN was a woman and our birth coach was a woman and I never even had to think about such a thing.

I wish I had time to finish reading the Penny piece because her stuff is awesome enough that I joined her Patreon a few months ago in hopes she'd make more of it.

[drwex]

Finished it. Awesome as expected. The pull quotes are epic.