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Unsafe Words
- Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Trevor Hoppe
- Angela Jones
- Alexander Cheves
- Jane Ward
- Gloria González-López
- Anahi Russo Garrido
- Mistress Velvet
- D.S. Trumbull
- Blu Buchanan
- James McMaster
- Mark S. King
- V. Jo Hsu
- Dominique Morgan
Considering this book's average rating on Goodreads is so high, and that I am the first person to give it a rating below three stars, I'm going to go out on a limb and affirm my opinion is a "hot take".
Some great essays were included in this anthology, notably the work of Blu Buchanan, Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, James McMaster and V. Jo Hsu.
But I will stand by my rating nonetheless. To Alexander Cheves: heck you in particular¹.
¹ TW: rape.
“More pointedly, he and I have almost certainly fucked men—at sex parties and elsewhere— who were too high to object. But just like the proverbial backroom, by being in those spaces, they waived a degree of consent.”
- Cheves, A. (2023) Consent in the Dark. In Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era (Q+ Public) (p. 50). Rutgers University Press.
↑ And this is what you do when you state something that may appear scandalous or outrageous at first glance. You cite a source to substantiate your claim. Take notes, mate.
Considering this book's average rating on Goodreads is so high, and that I am the first person to give it a rating below three stars, I'm going to go out on a limb and affirm my opinion is a "hot take".
Some great essays were included in this anthology, notably the work of Blu Buchanan, Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, James McMaster and V. Jo Hsu.
But I will stand by my rating nonetheless. To Alexander Cheves: heck you in particular¹.
¹ TW: rape.
“More pointedly, he and I have almost certainly fucked men—at sex parties and elsewhere— who were too high to object. But just like the proverbial backroom, by being in those spaces, they waived a degree of consent.”
- Cheves, A. (2023) Consent in the Dark. In Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era (Q+ Public) (p. 50). Rutgers University Press.
↑ And this is what you do when you state something that may appear scandalous or outrageous at first glance. You cite a source to substantiate your claim. Take notes, mate.