Making Smut From Politics

March 24, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

Feminist erotica speaks to that muddled mess of political consequence and human compulsion.

Book Review: Best Women’s Erotica 2014

March 18, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Best Women’s Erotica 2014 is a tremendous sampler of what erotica has to offer.

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 […]

Erotic Romance Review: Smokin’ Hot Firemen

January 8, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Erotica and erotic romance do not need to be fiercely divided categories.