Jul 14, 2023
Morbid Obsessions by We Are The Union
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Morbid Obsessions by We Are The Union
DISGUSTING PERVERSION-WAR ANNIHILATION
Morbid Obsessions by Frankie Miren and Alison Rumfitt
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The histories of the trans and sex worker rights movements are closely intertwined and, particularly in the UK, it’s rare to find a carceral feminist who isn’t also a rabid transphobe. What does it mean to write as part of a community that is under attack? Where, in fiction, is the line between exploring harmful ideology and humanising it? In Morbid Obsessions, Alison Rumfitt and Frankie Miren explore these questions and talk about the crossover in the ways they chose to approach them in their novels Tell Me I’m Worthless (Cipher Press) and The Service (Influx Press), covering the pornographic interest in sex workers and trans women, online violence, moral panic, creative representation, and paying tribute to sex worker and trans activism through fiction. Frank, funny, and hopeful, and featuring two new stories and an introduction by writer and historian Morgan M. Page, Morbid Obsessions is an urgent and vital conversation about making art as collective struggle.
Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet as I didn't know it before, but now I really desperately want to!
Now in come the drugs
In come the drugs and the booze
Razors wrists and self-abuse
Trapped like a rat got nothing left to lose
She wanted a dress
Like all the other girls, a head full of curls
They said son you can't always get
What you want in this world
Let go of these morbid obsessions
Every thought feels like a confession
She said, she said, she said
If I get one life, gonna do what I want
If I get one life, gonna do what I want
is it thought that causes the urge
or urge that causes the thought we'll know when we're dead.
how much do i want to tear my cheek off right now
i keep thinking about it just slice into the skin just under the jaw
wrench and tear my cheek right off
sinews tendons fuscle fibers blood fat
slippery
juices running through my fingers down my hand and forearms
pooling and dripping off my elbows puddle up on the floor
leverage would be a challenge let alone the best place to get a grip
i feel like my flesh is made of pretty tough stuff
when uncooked at least
without proper leverage how could i properly wrench my cheek off my face
my face off my face
i think reaching my arm over my head
the fingers can dig in under my skin and then pull up
i think i would prefer that direction that way i could even potentially pull skin away
from my eyes from my nose
maybe even forehead
sure will be messy better get a towel
puncture it up through the jaw into the brain pan
bored ignored
puncture the temple holy place on the face temple of the soul temple of the mind kill the mind fracture the skull tools available fork knife at a restaurnant at rest en le tableau murder the fuck all out of luck cut the hair off the brow off the cow from the left to the right conversation so trite