“I Want Them To Feel Everything”: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn Sex is omnipresent in Tina Horn’s graphic novel series SfSx. Investigating consent and coercion, sex work and censorship, the demonization of female sexuality and the exercise of radical, gender-inclusive queer pleasure, SfSx de-sensationalizes kink without reducing its eroticism. Along the way, it… Continue reading 36.2 | Anna Ziering
Category: 36.2 Writing Sex
36.2 | Anna Ziering
“I Want Them To Feel Everything”: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn Sex is omnipresent in Tina Horn’s graphic novel series SfSx. Investigating consent and coercion, sex work and censorship, the demonization of female sexuality and the exercise of radical, gender-inclusive queer pleasure, SfSx de-sensationalizes kink without reducing its eroticism. Along the way, it… Continue reading 36.2 | Anna Ziering
36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
Relating Otherwise: Erotic Power, Indigenous Relationality, and More-Than-Human Entanglements in Natalia Diaz’s “The First Water is the Body” This essay analyzes human and more-than-human entanglementsin Natalie Diaz’s poem “The First Water is the Body,” seeing the poem as a space where such relations proliferate, and drawing attention to the poet’s explicit refusal to label them… Continue reading 36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
36.2 | Sam Forrey
Discerning New Feminisim from Sadomasochistic Pornography in On Our Backs On Our Backs, a lesbian-feminist pornography magazine first published in 1984, features explicit lesbian sadomasochistic sex despite initial publication in a feminist politic critical of pornography and sadomasochism. The creators of On Our Backs expressed frustration with anti-porn discourse in the feminist movement and desired… Continue reading 36.2 | Sam Forrey
36.2 | Müge Özoğlu
Writing non-Turkish Subjectivities, Writing Contradictions: Twentieth-Century Istanbul in Istanbul Ansiklopedisi İstanbul Ansiklopedisi is an absorbing project undertaken by the renowned historian Reşad Ekrem Koçu and published between 1944and 1973. The encyclopaedia features a diverse range of entriesabout the history of buildings, fountains, customs, and individuals who either lived in or visited the city. It provides… Continue reading 36.2 | Müge Özoğlu
36.2 | Maddalena Italia
Sex and the Sanskrit Classics: Untranslatability, Code-switching, and Sexed-up Translations By looking at some unconventional and hitherto unstudied episodes in the modern reception history of two erotic stanzas ascribed toBhartṛhari—translated into French and Latin by Hippolyte Fauche,and into Hindi and English by Purohit Gopinath—this paper aims to complicate the narrative about the (un)translatability of sex… Continue reading 36.2 | Maddalena Italia
36.2 | Jennifer Jasmine White
‘The nature of flesh, which is to say, the world’ Reading Sex in the Angela Carter Papers This article seeks to recognise autofictional and autotheoreticalimpulses at play in the writings of Angela Carter (1940-1992). Inparticular, it presents a reading of Carter’s short story Flesh andthe Mirror, first published in 1974, alongside archival materials heldby the… Continue reading 36.2 | Jennifer Jasmine White
36.2 | Robert LaRue
No Shame in this Queer Thang: Sex, Place, and Belonging in Charles Rice-Gónzales Chulito This paper analyzes depictions of sex within Charles Rice-González’s novel, Chulito, which focuses on the sixteen-year-old Puerto Rican American Chulito as he grapples with the impact of his same-sexdesires on his place within his South Bronx community. I arguethat sex in… Continue reading 36.2 | Robert LaRue
36.2 | Foreword
Anasuya Virmani and Nienke Veenstra In the foreword to this issue, editors-in-chief Anasuya Virmani and Nienke Veenstra discuss sex, and introduce the articles making up this issue.