"I didn’t see that my body was the thread connecting what I was doing sexually, what I was doing with how I fed myself, what I was doing at work, etcetera."

Talking about labor, bodies, consent, motherhood, and writing with Margo Steines, author of Brutalities: A Love Story

Margo Steines’ Brutalities is one of those books that makes me want to write. It’s put together with such precision and care that it almost feels as though it wasn’t written, but rather, was always meant to be. Though it’s a story of Margo’s own experiences with pain—how she was drawn toward various forms of brutality in work and in love, and how she mo…