How to Complete a Senior Thesis

April 21, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

On April 11th, 2014, I turned in my senior thesis. The product of months of blood, sweat, and tears, it clocked in at 126 pages and contained eight short stories, a twenty-eight page theoretical introduction, and so many sassy subtitles. After nary a day without editing a description of an orgasm, panicking about over-using the phrase […]

Moving West and Moving On: Berkeley-bound

March 29, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

So I’m moving to Berkeley. Not immediately, of course, but after graduation, most likely the first week of June. The details haven’t been hashed out—will I be there for the summer or permanently, where will I live, who will I live with—but it’s definitely happening. I was offered an incredible internship and what was always […]

Thesis Excerpt: Pissed Off Baby Feminist With a Notebook

March 18, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

I started writing about sex before I found feminism but it bled through my fiction from the beginning. Having been raised on young adult romances, my first teenage forays into the wacky world of sex and relationships were a confusing letdown. I had little interest in falling in love and far more interest in being […]

Book Review: Dark Secret Love and The Delicious Torment

February 7, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

As some of you may know, I am writing my undergraduate thesis about feminist erotica. This requires two main steps: thinking about what makes erotica feminist by devouring anthologies and classic work deemed landmark women’s fiction like Delta of Venus and Fear of Flying, and then writing my own fiction by applying that analysis. Political […]

#humblebrag, I’m this week’s WesCeleb

January 29, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

This past weekend I was interviewed for The Wesleyan Argus by a friend of mine, the illustrious Gabe Rosenberg, about my time at Wesleyan and the work I’ve done with Unlocked Magazine. Unlocked is Wes’s student-run art and sexuality magazine, and over the past three years I revived it, re-staffed it, and published some incredible […]

2014: ‘Look at you, being a real person and stuff’

January 7, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

I was explaining to a friend that I was lurking in a Night Owl Reviews author chat tonight to pick up tips on entering the erotica-writing industry when he said something terrifying. “Oh crap. Cause you’re thinking about jobs. Look at you, being a real person and stuff.” It is January 6, 2014. I am twenty-one […]