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Why I Don’t Use Trigger Warnings (The Way You Think I Should)
Because the kind of darkness I write doesn’t always fit into tidy trigger checklists. These aren’t stories about tropes or kink packaged for mass appeal. They’re stories about power. About control.

Olympia Black
Jul 282 min read


Women's Sexual Agency is also Human Agency
When women write about sex, especially in a raw, honest, or emotionally complex way, it often gets dismissed as "porn" or "smut" because it threatens the traditional boundaries that have long defined acceptable female expression. There's a cultural discomfort—especially in male-dominated literary criticism—with women owning their sexual narratives without shame, without permission, and without softening the edges.

Olympia Black
Apr 192 min read
Olympia Black Science Fiction Author
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