I didn’t know much about gardens, in general, but what I was working with seemed less like the married person’s vegetable patch the church described and more like a Narnian wonderland full of infinite magical possibility.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Or How I Divorced Jesus and Learned to Love Sex
azura09–who served as as this blog’s lone guest curator (thus far)–has an important article up over at Autostraddle.
In it she details her experience working for an Austin based publisher–specifically: how the non-consent/heteronormativity/misogyny underlying 50 Shades of Grey have become a template for the way kink is packaged and presented in erotica.
Her account is horrifying; but also essential for the light it shines on the current mainstreaming of deeply problematic/irresponsible/unrealistic depictions of BDSM/kink.
50 Shades of Non-Consent: Editing BDSM Erotica as a Queer Top
Acetylene Eyes 