Table of Contents Sleeping at the Chicago Meeting of the Modern Language Association Humiliation Riddle Rape Diet Self-Portrait Poem for a Fake Perfume Ad the cruelty of camp No Subjunctive in English epilogue good enough future party birthmark and hair third person Advice Flying Dream Melodrama before her high school reunion El Nino it repeats you and he

Why? We have power, but we won't use it to fuck you over. Power does not mean domination. It means knowing when to fight, when to protect yourself, and how to maintain freedom within an organized, egalitarian community. We know all this shit, but we also have a sense of humor about it. Feminists can snicker too. We can enjoy watching TV shows about car crashes, reading porno mags, and playing video games with nerdy boys--and even after ALL THAT, we're still out to help everybody have good gender at the end of the day. What is good gender? It's about being comfortable in your body, having pleasure in that body, despite what tradition may tell you you're supposed to do with it. A look between your naked legs is not a look at destiny. Fuck that shit.