Writing is precisely working (in) the in-between, inspecting the process of the same and of the other…not fixed in sequences of struggle and expulsion…but infinitely dynamized by an incessent process of exchange from one subject to another… a multiple and inexhaustible course with millions of encounters and transformations of the same into the other and into the in-between, from which woman takes her forms (and man, in his turn)

Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa 

are there any texts or films you would recommend exploring the theme of women’s desire?

Luce Irigaray—This Sex Which is Not One

Luce Irigaray—”When Our Lips Speak Together”

Carolyn Knapp–APPETITES: Why Women Want

Jade Sharma–Problems 

Chris Kraus—I Love Dick 

Anne Carson–”The Glass Essay”

Maggie Nelson—Bluets

Katherine Angel—Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell

Kate Chopin—The Awakening 

Helene Cixous–The Laugh of the Medusa 

Anne Carson—Decreation

Charlotte Shane—”When Desire Goes Dark”

Jess Zimmerman—”Hunger Makes Me”

Kathy Acker–”-Desire: A Play in Two Parts”

Kathy Acker—Blood and Guts in High School 

Dodie Bellamy–Cunt-Ups

Dodie Bellamy–The Letters of Mina Harker

Karen Volkman—Spar

Lucie Brock-Broido—Master Letters

Maurice Pialat—A Nos Amours