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Tracy Clark-Flory
@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social
Journalist. Essayist. Author of WANT ME and A WOMAN LIKE THAT (2026, @gallerybooks). Newsletter: tracyclarkflory.substack.com.
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Just read @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on Pedro Pascal, our last best hope for mankind.
What is 'Pedro-masculinity'?
It's the antithesis of ugly and aggressive petro-masculinity, sure, but it's also another narrow box. Let's not reduce Pedro Pascal's goodness to 'masculinity.'
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June 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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On grief, memory, mothering, mountains and all the water that connects our bodies to the earth -- by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social, which hit my heart this morning like a ... cybertruck. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...
A nature-loving Cybertruck driver
And moms as mountains.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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impossible to know where to begin about porn scholar Linda Williams, one of the greatest to ever do it. I've kept a highlighter tucked inside my copy of HARD CORE since I got it used years ago, my first intro to her brilliant, defiant scholarship dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/f...
March 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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"Perry is one of many reactionary feminists who occasionally point to real problems in young women’s lives while offering false solutions, and I’m afraid that it’s an unfortunately effective source of radicalization." @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social
Do not buy this book for your teenage daughter
Louise Perry's YA book is a case study in how disillusioned young women are being sold traditional 'family values' alongside claims of 'feminism.' It's like if J.D. Vance taught sex ed.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Really loved this piece by @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on the malleability of love in HELLO STRANGER and other recent books.
What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
My valentine to you: an interrogation of love. What even *is it* anymore? What about the possibilities of “fleeting intimacies,” erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of -e-? tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/what-even-...
What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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"I find myself asking: What isn’t love? What isn’t eros?"

@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social offers some commentary on a growing body of work related to desire, eroticism, longing, intimacy, and transformative relationship dynamics beyond traditional monogamy.

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What even is love?
Considering the possibilities of 'fleeting intimacies,' erotic friendship, undefinable obsessions, and the radical potentials of sex.
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February 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Turns out a “sex robot” can be a perfect metaphor for being socialized as a woman in this world. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...
Programmed to please
'Companion' is a sci-fi thriller about a 'sex robot' who perfectly reflects the realities of being socialized as a woman.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“I would appreciate having an index of my obsessions at any time, but right now it feels like a lifeline. In the midst of so much cruelty and hatred—so much anti-intellectualism—that index feels like a reminder of those things I want to hold onto: passion, curiosity, inspiration, and connection.”
A catalog of obsessions
Keeping a commonplace book in uncommon times.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Coolcoolcoooolll.
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We’re in the midst of a resurgence of right-wing erotic nostalgia not just for the 1950s housewife but also a pre-MeToo era of unapologetic objectification. tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
Make America Objectify Women Again
Conservatives are claiming certain women's bodies and sex appeal as an anti-woke political symbol while *oh-so-bravely* celebrating men's desire.
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December 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
A review of straight culture in 2024—from narratives of women busting out of domesticity to conservative interpretations of polyamory. tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/the-year-o...
The year of hetero discontent
From sex strikes to divorce memoirs, a review of straight culture in 2024.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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a fascinating topic — how people are feeling about sex and desire post-election
I asked people where they’re at post-election w/sex, desire, and their bodies. Just a sampling: “Our queer sex is liberation, our pleasure a big middle-finger to the cultural forces & people who voted against our interests or want to see us extinguished.” tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/queer-plea...
Queer pleasure is 'a big middle-finger'
Also: 'Don’t think I’m touching a man anytime soon.’ Post-election, I asked where you're at when it comes to sex, desire, and your body. Here's what you said.
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November 24, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I asked people where they’re at post-election w/sex, desire, and their bodies. Just a sampling: “Our queer sex is liberation, our pleasure a big middle-finger to the cultural forces & people who voted against our interests or want to see us extinguished.” tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/queer-plea...
Queer pleasure is 'a big middle-finger'
Also: 'Don’t think I’m touching a man anytime soon.’ Post-election, I asked where you're at when it comes to sex, desire, and your body. Here's what you said.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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I made a #BayArea starter pack, heavy on writers and book people. Please let me know who I've missed so I can add them! go.bsky.app/5eFo1ir
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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We are worked to death in the United States. It pits us against one another. Thank you @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social
for interviewing me about 4B separatism, heteropessimism, and more tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/a-feminist...
A feminist utopianism
Sophie Lewis argues against the 'fatalism' of both 4B and heteropessimism, and calls for a collective movement built on solidarity.
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November 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
“[4B] in the South Korean context is explicitly girl-boss-ish in flavor, and very anti-socialist. It's about wealth and achievement and individually breaking the glass ceiling. There's not even a relationship with a movement of revolutionary ambition.” tracyclarkflory.substack.com/p/a-feminist...
A feminist utopianism
Sophie Lewis argues against the 'fatalism' of both 4B and heteropessimism, and calls for a collective movement built on solidarity.
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November 14, 2024 at 7:49 PM