Can Consent Exist in a Culture of Control?

Some thoughts on NXIVM, Don't Worry Darling, Love is Blind, and America

I should write about the exodus from Twitter here, maybe—about the control we do and do not have over how discourse moves in this country—but I just can’t. Instead, who out there is watching The Vow? My interest in the series is not just voyeuristic. Every time I watch an episode, I think of you all. There’s so much within the NXIVM case about “empowerm…