This Is Us
Starving Myself Straight
Coming to terms with my sexual anorexia
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9 min readDec 11, 2020
In her 2000 novel Aliens and Anorexia, Chris Kraus writes that it’s “impossible to conceive a female life that might extend outside itself.” That is, we expect women to be insular, private, shrinking. Kraus is writing about philosopher Simone Weil, who starved herself to death at 34, the age I am now.
