Forgetting shame and remembering your slutty self
Topher TaylorConference Room 2
- Beginning by acknowledging the audience of writers and readers. Giving credit to the fact that it was women who inspired me sexually. Not queer men… women! I want to give thanks and credit to the room who inspired and educated me
- How growing up with 'sluts' inspired me. The lower-working-class 'sluts' of South London accepted me and welcomed my desires and curiosities - because they didn't deny their sexuality
- Talking about the context of my self-loathing as a youth and how this paid into my internalised shame as an adult. I only began to felt free talking 'slut talk' in my mid-to-late twenties, due to years of internal battles
- How being open and vulnerable opened up career opportunities in media
- The best mindset to write in
- If it makes you cringe and you second guess it - IT HAS TO BE IN YOUR WRITING
- Allow yourself to have ego in print and grant yourself permission to admit to your own desirability
- Promoting your writing organically on social media
Mon 11:57 pm - 12:00 am