Melissa Lovitz
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Melissa Lovitz Articles
#YouKnowYoureAFeministWhen… It’s the punchline to a good joke. It’s the start of catchy Twitter hashtag. Right?
Read...“I Choose Authenticity.”
Read...It’s frustrating that most identities on the asexuality spectrum are qualified by a “lack” of something — desire, intimacy, attraction. I wonder, what might happen for demisexual (or asexual) people if we turn our focus toward what relationships contain, rather than what they’re missing.
Read...I’ve been struggling to understand if I’m a “bad queer” or a “bad feminist” and sometimes, I think I am!
Read...So, if you’re out there in the world feeling broken, and questioning if you’re the only one who doesn’t “get it”, or if you’re eager to learn more about asexuality so you can be a better ally to the LGBTQIA+ community, here are three things that helped me claim and learn about my asexual identity.
Read...My relationship with body is anything but “typical.” So far, I’ve hated my body at every size — and not just because of my size.
Read...Sexual attraction is not the only type of physical attraction, AND aesthetic attraction is not the same as sexual attraction!
Read...I don’t identify with the heterosexual norms that have been shoved down my throat and the pathologizing rhetoric that, for most of my life, shrieked "you’re broken," and then I was publicly ostracized by a person who identifies as part of "the community" — the same community I feel connected to.
Read...Something changed for me when I heard my friend say, “I run so I can eat.” I run so I can cope, so I can feel invincible, so I can think. And so, in a surprising change of events, I challenged them politely and asked, “What would change if, instead, you ate so you can run?”
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