A Queer Memoir About Sex Work That Interrogates Power, Gender, and Heteronormativity

Chris Belcher’s searing memoir about her work as a professional dominatrix isn’t exactly a comfortable read. Not because of the subject, but because Pretty Baby asks more of the reader than many memoirs. Like the best art does, this book invites introspection and interrogation of both our own lives and society at large.  Belcher grew […] The post A Queer Memoir About Sex Work That Interrogates Power, Gender, and Heteronormativity appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Is Work Replacing Religion in America?

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A Jeffrey Epstein accuser shares scathing allegations in a new memoir: ‘My book is my day in court’

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Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’

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I write ‘women’s commercial fiction’ –why is my work still seen as inferior to men’s? | Emma Hughes

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Sir Paul McCartney’s memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer

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