But you don’t even mean to write about sex with people you don’t love, or even really like at all. It just kind of happens when you try to write about things that matter to you, like dudleya and your life.
Like: Intimacy in Late-Stage Capitalism by Sarah Panlibuton Barnes. Letterpress printed. This book is part of the Queer Chapbook Trio published in the summer of 2018. Youth, sex, and succulents all in the shadow of the opioid epidemic is just a hint of the rich territory this short memoir covers. First published online in VIDA Review on August 9, 2018. Edition of 50. 6.25″x4.5″15pp.
About the author: Sarah Panlibuton Barnes is a writer and artist. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction prize, selected by Ocean Vuong, and you can read her work at Repeller, Catapult, VIDA, Architectural Digest, and Guernica, among other publications. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @femmedrag.
