Hello all, and welcome! I am starting this blog because sometimes I go mad and have words pushing out from beneath my skin that beg to be released, and honestly, no one to give them to. I am also starting this blog because I am mad and I’m a long-suffering academic doing thesis research on romance novels, and I’m scared of talking about it in real life and getting those itchingly patronizing looks from folks who hate the pop culture of it all. Or even the well-meaning remarks from friends who are so glad I chose a fun topic!
Here, I want romance to be real, to be fleshy, something to sit with and dissect, something to consume and be consumed by. Sometimes it’ll be related to my thesis, sometimes it’ll be my 2am thoughts, and sometimes it’ll be both.
I also want this to be a site of freedom-making, of world building that pushes the bounds of our contemporary reality. I want to situate romance novels, particularly neo-historical fiction, as a site of liberation. While I often write abstractly, I want to also remain grounded in our ever-shifting realities.
I hope you choose to join me on this journey, as I glimpse out at you from beneath my ever-growing pile of books.
Love in the Time of the Feminist Subjunctive 
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