"I admire the view I have chosen. This is the greatest gift: to choose a life one can admire oneself for living...I wait for the surprises of my body, its inevitable lapses and decay. But I wait free of terror, even with some interest. I hope to be awake for my own death."
I had to push myself through Mary Gordan's novel, The Company of Women, but it was worth it in the end, just these few lines from one of her female characters, made it golden.
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I must admit that my eyebrows raised when I heard that "A" was added to the PRIDE agenda. A for Asexual. I've defended asexual orientation in the past for individuals coming to terms with their disinterest in sex, but I didn't fully understand the idea of identifying with that which is not present. Shae Collins, the writer of A Womyn's Worth, writes an honest conviction for an affirmative Asexual identity: How I Confront Sex Positivity and Consent as an Asexual Feminist.
"I WASN’T QUITE SURE HOW MY FEMINISM WAS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE A SEXUAL ORIENTATION THAT WOULD, WITHOUT HESITATION, CHOOSE A PIECE OF CAKE OVER SEX." I get it. Put the A up on the Identity Flag. As I've written before, there's always enough room. |
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