My sexuality is not a university research paper, requiring citations in Chicago Style format
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Sapphic Silencing
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Spotlight On Joy Davidman
To express the thoughts, emotions and cognitions we feel no other soul has ever known; to be able to capture a feeling in tangible language, place it before someone and have them say ‘that’s mine’, is a form of emotional empowerment few strangers can offer each other.
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The Reframing of Sex
“Every time a man cums in me / He leaves a part of his soul.”
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Lover
“To know one such as I know you / To love in knowing, as I love / The passages of your soul ...”
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Reasonable Adjustments
“I read the latest reply in the email thread with my lecturer, close my eyes, and feel my heart sink and chest tighten as I prepare for the all too familiar battle ahead. My faith in the system has been jaded by years of veiled requests to prove the legitimacy and severity of my illness over and over again. EAP be damned.”
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I Feel You
“I feel you in me / My insides do not twist / like they did when / I felt him ...”
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The Ascendacy
“I claim you like a pebble on a beach. You are a smooth weight in my hand carried for a period of pleasure then forgotten, captive in a dusty bottom drawer.”
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Back Here.
“Then, I see your face and I no longer have any desire to fight for my next breath. Your touch burns my skin. I feel your fist against my cheekbone.”
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She
“Wrecked women / Screaming at us, in pain / And fear / But men sway to their hurt ...”
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A Letter to Survivors
“Seeing these words in his handwriting was the only truth that could have ever convinced me that I really was in an abusive relationship ...”