“If you see something, say something”
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
While reading Middlesex, a certain quote, the origin of which I cannot place, kept popping into my head: “We accept the love we think we deserve.” Our sense of deserving in life is shaped the by the shame we cannot overcome. The characters in Eugenides’ novel each negotiate the embodiment of this feeling, preoccupied by […]
“If you see something, say something”
Tags: incest, Jeffrey Eugenides, love, Middlesex, Shame, surveillance
Posted in April 30, Sophia Curran | No Comments »
Shameless Sex
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Something about the way African American women write about sexuality is unparalleled. There is a kind of an easy and beautiful continuum between pain and passion, that is expressed in a raw and unashamed way, that speaks to a culture that developed from very different roots in this country. Maybe it stems from what Brenda […]
Shameless Sex
Tags: Shame, Sula
Posted in April 16, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
