It isn’t just about the hot sex — though the sex is very hot — it’s about creating spaces where Latinx queer bodies can feel ownership. It’s tearing down shame. It’s about saying that our love, our sex, our sticky sweat is valid. It’s about fighting tooth and nail for pleasure in a world that would rather us be criminalized for waking up in the morning.
Whitney Houston at the Met Gala, 1999. The theme was “Rock Style.”
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We have an all-Latinx writers room, most of it queer women. A Latina was the casting director; a Latina was the cinematographer; a Latina was the composer; a Latina was the editor. And that matters. I mean — we really tried to make it right.
This happened. I’m totally serious. MTV True Life: I Had a Prophetic Nap Dream About Lesbian Memes. I obeyed and more than a year later, I haven’t looked back.
You start off in limbo, waiting forever for the water to warm up. You walked by some aesthetic succulents on your way into the bathroom, but you might as well have passed through gates that read “abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” If the water ever does warm up, you and your partner (because trying this with more than two takes ungodly dedication) will spend eternity fighting for a place under the stream of water, which is likely rapidly running cool, in a howling darkness of helpless discomfort. If you try a position where one or both of you is on the shower floor, you risk lying in a vile slush and coming face-to-face with the reality of whenever you last cleaned. If you try a standing position, everything might feel hopelessly slippery — except for your vagina if you have one, because water washes natural and water-based lube away, making microtears and irritation and burning sand and burning rain more likely. And like the ninth circle of hell, your lesbian shower sex experience might end in treachery, when the silicone lube that didn’t wash away from your bodies also didn’t wash away from the floor of the bathtub and betrays you. So how do you take your lesbian shower sex from Inferno to Paradiso?
