I'm 30 Before I Do Anything About It

"I'm 30 before I do anything about it, mostly by having a lesbian suffrage phase," she says. "It's like my past experiences are encoded, are part of me." Even in her first serious queer relationship, the idea of surrender is too intensely uncomfortable to entertain. She writes thinly veiled fiction about women who are deeply dissatisfied with the men in their lives and expectations of heteronormativity in general.