Kait from the PDXX Collective interviews Lidia Yuknavitch
KaitWhat does sex do for a story?
Lidia I come from such a weird angle because I think desire and sexuality are in language. My job is to find the writing path that will surface that idea. In a way, I’m a little bit against the inserted sex scene because I don’t think that it happens in our bodies and real life, so why should we do that in our writing? The Americanized, market-driven sex scene dislocates sex from our real experience. I teach a workshop on sex, death, and memoir. The first couple weeks we talk about the sex writing that doesn’t go deep enough. One of the assignments I give in my workshop is to write sexually and explicitly about a non-sexual experience. That teaches a lot.
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