Critical Intimacies
Erin WilliamsMidlife longing meets algorithmic reality, for readers who prefer their feelings theory-adjacent.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 78 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The Second Arrow
A graphic memoir about sex that does not exist
Once upon a time three years ago, my marriage opened and then promptly fell apart. I was in the middle of getting my MFA, working on a book about my grandfather that I’d been researching and w...
Bald eagle 9/11 commie panic
working for the weekend
A couple days ago I finished reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I was captivated by his specific, visceral contempt for “the Brotherhood,” his thinly fictionalized communist party stand in. The unnamed narrator...
It would be cool if my politics and my libido agreed
Fernando Botero’s Girl and Cat (me)
I still date men. Sometimes this feels like low grade scandal, given how much time I spend critiquing heterosexuality.
These days, I think and write mostly about gender, power, and intimacy. I know the...
Crisis is a hair
Peter Doig, Figures in red Boat, 2005-2007.
For a few years in my 20s, I lived in New York on about $20 a day. I worked full-time (35 hours a week) in Urban Outfitters making $9.25 an hour, which I considered a decent wage at the time. The...
A Category Error
“Cherry lips and fishy tips” by Summer De Guia
I was 13 or 14 when I started entering rooms and immediately scanning for cute boys. I didn’t dare approach anyone then, nor would I now, honestly, though my shoulders might pull back into str...
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Author & illustrator of COMMUTE and WHAT’S WRONG. Doctoral student. I write about intimacy, desire, and modern estrangement. Lover of books and fatal mistakes.
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