Action

desire

• I was so romantically self-possessed and free! Then he punched me in the face. The stars multiplied again from the impact.

  A2-001

• I had the best sex of my life, easily, resplendently, world-and game-changingly, with a person whom I met loitering curbside.

  A2-011

intimacy

• He took my boots off for me each time we got undressed… 'You're too good for those idiots.'

  A2-010

• 'It's not! I just think you have the right to know whether I could potently…' — consent as the ground of genuine closeness.

  A2-008

trauma-and-survival

• I have been pretty lucky, which is an amazing thing to say about being raped twice.

  A2-002

• When someone tries to kiss me there, it's possible that I'll recoil into brain-shivers and moribund thoughts because of some violence done to me there.

  A2-007