Tag: Penises

I’m seven years old. I’m in bed with two of my siblings. The rest had yet to be born. We shared a bed. All of the siblings are just in one bed. At night, we tell stories. One of us will say a sentence, then another will follow, and we will build a story from this one foundation...

In this essay, I will share these insights and show that, while these exclusionary practices are often rationalized in terms of “privilege,” they are primarily driven by a form of purity politics rooted in patriarchal and heteronormative notions about sex and sexuality. I will also consi...