by Arden Leigh | Jan 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
There’s this idea – mostly among men but not exclusively – that if someone likes the work you share, they can just “be your friend” without doing the same work on themselves to be able to offer the same amount of value you do, and to have... by Arden Leigh | Dec 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve spent roughly the last decade being the poster child of liberated sexuality. I’ve been advocating for exploring non-normative ways of relating for about as long as I’ve been of legal drinking age, because I think the default box we get for our... by Arden Leigh | Dec 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Here’s a question: Is consent a spectrum? Is there a scale between “fuck yes!” and knife-to-the-throat rape? How many shades does it contain? How do you know where your yes ends and your no begins? If you say yes to sex you don’t really want... by Arden Leigh | Dec 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
As some of you may have gleaned from my recent posts, I’ve been working recently on healing about a decade’s worth of repressed sexual assault and unwanted touch, things I’m not entirely ready to talk about because I had split them off from my... by Arden Leigh | Dec 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Caution: weird post, very zoomed out. If you zoom too far in, you’ll miss the point. Lately it feels like I’m bearing a lot of the weight of the stories that have been told over the last several decades with the agenda of holding back women. As I’ve...
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