
Background: “Iron Fist” by Mika Hiironniemi, via Flickr Creative Commons
This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be Silent–Voices Raised Against Hate,” and will be cross-posted here at a later date.
Author’s note: This essay is part of the #52Essays2017 series. Every week in 2016, Vanessa Mártir published one essay on her blog. After a phenomenal year of challenges and growth as a writer, she invited other writers in various communities she’s a part of to join her as she endeavors to write weekly, relentlessly, again in 2017. I’m in on the challenge because I saw how very little space I gave personal reflection in 2016. This is my thesis semester, and I expect some challenges and growth as I write it. The weekly essay challenge provides a space to document that growth (though I’m already thinking I might screw with the genre a little).
