Desire
We humans are sometimes able to squeeze kindness out of a stone. And love out of nowhere.
In late 2004, in my first year of college, a school friend emailed me a link to something she called…
Maintaining the streak meant maintaining contact
The convergence of technology and romance opens up a complex network of possibilities…
People are becoming lonelier, and their desire for connection, stronger.
…something truer than thought starts to climb upwards.
My mother will be so ashamed of me for ‘dying for sex’.
I’ve essentially thought of movement as a kind of freedom, but one that has the capacity to destabilise you in some way. My most creative moments are when I’m not moving, when I am in fact rooted and still.
We become women before we become a woman. Of course, we don’t need to try hard to do so…We learn the sides and folds of the gendered box we are in before we gain the perspective to decide we don’t fit in and build a customised box or choose to have no box at all.
Gender has perplexed me throughout life. I never quite understood femininity or masculinity much – I mostly lived in what other people thought I was. One thing I did know always is that I never, ever, want to be seen as a man. But can I still hold masculinity?
Growing up is a tedious task in our society because of the institutionalised practices, societal constructs and boxed identities and expressions that we are expected to adhere to. Anything beyond these implies harm, danger, and deviance.