I am 56 and can barely watch films or TV shows these days because they are about either high school students or 31 year olds.

I've written about a few that feature 50+ cis women, esp how their sex lives are portrayed. My latest is on #AndJustLikeThat feministgiant.com/p/essay-hate-w…

Those portrayals are esp important to me because I was not raised for desire. I snatched it from the jaws of shame.

In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, 60-something Nancy Stokes is snatching desire from the jaws of ageism. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…

Had the film focused just on Nancy’s determined pursuit of sexual pleasure, it would have startled enough. How often do films center a woman in her early 60s?

Rarer still is the film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck.

Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cis women is age at which we cease to be its walking incubators.

Wanting sex & expressing sexuality outside tenets of heteronormativity: these are a chaos & liberation that threaten patriarchy, deeply feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…