archiving wounds of womanhood
originally published in the prospector, spring 2024 issue 1: bodies: the lustful, bestial, and abnormal
in his auto-theoretical book testo junkie, paul b. preciado defines pornography as media that “tells the performative truth about sexuality. it is not the degree zero of representation. rather, it reveals that sexuality is always performance” (preciado, 270). preciado’s suggestion that the highly contentious medium of pornography might reveal the truth about sexuality rather than detract from its essence is a revolutionary stance that is echoed by certain thinkers and challenged by others…