by Lesley Graydon | Identity, Theory
“You need a label. But I’m not a piece of furniture with the price on the back.” (Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook , 65). A facet at the heart of Jeanette Winterson’s The Powerbook is the freedom that comes when no identity is present, when identity is not...
by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality
Ulla E. Dydo, Stein scholar and editor of the selected works collection titled A Stein Reader: Gertrude Stein, asserts that Pink Melon Joy is “the most lighthearted, humorous, and erotic work” of the early World War I time; further, she writes that Pink Melon Joy...
by Lesley Graydon | Gender
Gender Divisions as The Most Common Perversity In Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex Pat Califia asserts that our dependence and belief in sex differences is primarily driven by sexual pleasure; this pleasure thus becomes the most common perversion. The fact that...
by Lesley Graydon | Gender
A popular term used to describe gender and sexual variants and variancy is the term genderqueer. Some use the term genderqueer as an umbrella term for all gender identities that are outside the heteronormative gender binary system, a system full of assumptions...
by Lesley Graydon | Communication, Dating, Love, Relationships, Self-love
Do you think you might be settling in your new or current relationship? Do you want to be loved & cherished yet that isn’t your experience? Are you interested in a long-term partnership and questioning if the person you are dating is someone you want to...
