Writing Desire
Pre-pandemic, I was a tightrope pulled to its ripping point, a crammed skull overfilling with want, sweetness, anxiety, ambition, loss—but mostly, possibility. Pre-pandemic, I was finally waking up and feeling…
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Sofia Sears
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Sofia Sears is a writer and activist from Los Angeles, as well as Lithium‘s Books Editor. She reads too much queer lit instead of being productive and writes about female rage, books, Mitski, the power of fandom, and whatever else she can imbue with feminism. Her work has been featured in Rookie, The L.A. Times, and other publications. She hosts the Girlhood podcast, focused on girlhood and its political, social, and cultural complexities, and will be attending Swarthmore College beginning in the fall of 2019. You can find her work here.
Using #MeToo as a Verb
Content warning: mentions of sexual violence and rape culture. When it happens, sometimes you think it’ll never happen again. When it happens, you might experience the vileness, the intrusion, as…
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Lithium Premieres The Aquadolls’ “Suck On This”
Be grateful you have any space here at all. The whole world is telling womxn to, essentially, GTFO: of politics, music, art, activism, science, everything ever. The whole world is…
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Girls’ Fan Art Isn’t Embarrassing—It’s Radical.
You begin with a love that surpasses all else, unhinging you from your squalid, preteenaged self. That streetlight like a stained-glass window; that profound, worship-deserving creature living in the mundane,…
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