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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
People have always sought me out during crises. Breakups, infatuation, heartbreak, career changes, stuckness, loss of faith: that’s when people find me. I think that I attract vulnerability because I am vulnerable. And it’s not my writing, like the truth is that I don’t say anything particularly vulnerable or act very vulnerable, I’m actually compu
... See moreWhen you are instantly protective of someone, a sliver of a bond forms. I have always felt protective of other women. And I have always trusted them on impact and given them all I could. For while it is men who I crave and desire, who I would like to lie down next to and smell their skin and allow them within me in an intense and foreign way, it is
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