Writing Into Our Contradictions w. DEESHA PHILYAW

Writing Into Our Contradictions w. DEESHA PHILYAW

Deesha Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, her collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, is her fiction debut. (Bookshop) It is a National Book Award finalist. Learn more about Deesha at deeshaphilyaw.com.

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Deesha discusses what separates good sex writing from bad.

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