Persephone's (Gothic) Insights

I've decided as of yesterday to finally come out as trans. As such, my new name is Persephone and my chosen pronouns are they/them or she/her.  You may have noticed the domain doesn't reflect my transition and that my dead name is plastered all over the place (a consequence of me not really thinking this through). I will aim to rectify this over time. In the interim, I would ask you to please not to deadname or misgender me. Thank you! As for why I did it, let's just say the reasons are complicated. It's certainly not something I chose lightly. Rather, I'd been considering it for several years and probably would have come out in 2020 had my ex at the time been more supportive.  In spite of their abuse, I was also hesitant to come out for fear of reprisals from online hate groups. But then it occurred to me: I'm already writing a book about TERFs and fascists; I may as well face them as I actually am than try and pass for something I'm not. ***   Persephone v...

[Blogger/Google censors anything with nudity but also bikini shots with gratuitous, sometimes; so I've swapped out the original cover with a slightly less risqué version. Click here the original cover version. ] This book sample—apart from the abstract, disclaimer and table of contents—contains a rough-cut, much older version of the manifesto for my [now nearly-finished book series], Sex Positivity versus Sex Coercion, or Gothic Communism: Liberating Sex Work under Capitalism through Iconoclastic Art . Since writing it, I've divided the book into four volumes, of which the manifesto is only one half of Volume One (the other half being dedicated to trauma writing and artwork). The other volumes are Volume Zero (the thesis), Volume Two (the Humanities primer) and Volume Three (the praxis volume). I'm releasing the volumes in numerical order and multiple books are currently live on my website for free . The remaining manuscripts need to be updated before I release them, and al...