Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.
This week, the editors revisit writer Sarah Nicole Prickett’s “Serious Sex Battle,” published in February 2018.“A preference for death over captivity spurs radical movement,” Prickett declares in her virtuosic, gimlet-eyed essay on a woman of inordinate strength. “Serious Sex Battle” is a feminist genealogy, but it’s also a strong theory for how to outmaneuver reactionaries. Legerity is essential; so is an alert refusal of your enemy’s terms. As Prickett argues, “The heroine we need is against the hero. The antagonist. She remains outside.” David VelascoONE A WOMAN OF INORDINATE STRENGTHBeyoncé