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URL:https://robyndiner.com/events/more-than-a-milf-writing-sex-and-the-agi
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SUMMARY:More Than a MILF: Writing Sex and the Aging Female Body
DESCRIPTION:[$199.00]\n\nWhat do aging women want? A break from monogamy an
 d domesticity? Casual young lovers of all genders? A hotel room of their o
 wn? Or something more significant?  Indeed\, recent literary fiction sugg
 ests that the answer lies in a combination of the above—and more.\n\nThi
 s course introduces you to texts starring a variety of unruly female prota
 gonists who are honouring their peri\, post or presently menopause selves 
 with swagger—at a time when their newly seemingly invisible bodies are s
 agging in surprising places.  It asks: How do these works disrupt reducti
 ve and often cringey tropes featuring aging women as MILFS? How can we spr
 ingboard off these texts to write our own no-longer-young bodies and desir
 es back into the picture—with a difference?\nParticipants are invited to
  get experiential\, fictional and playful as they respond to tailored prom
 pts specifically designed to help them create a draft of their own. They a
 re also invited to share their work\, and they will receive feedback that 
 will allow them to walk away with an enhanced ability to write insightfull
 y about sex and the aging female body.\nThroughout the course\, the instru
 ctor will share highlights from the following works of literary fiction: A
 nnie Ernaux’s The Young Man\, Michelle Hart’s We Do What We Do in the 
 Dark\,Aysegül Savaś’ “Marseille\,” Miranda July’s All Fours\, Gu
  Byeong-Mo’s The Old Woman with the Knife\, and Susan Minot’s Don’t 
 Be a Stranger.\nAt times\, the instructor will also draw on recent relevan
 t pop culture\, such as Babygirl and The White Lotus (Season 3)\, as well 
 as popular novels that have been adapted for the screen like Terry McMilla
 n’s How Stella got her Groove Back\, and Tom Perrota’s Mrs. Fletcher.\
 nWhen relevant\, the instructor will make reference to crucial non-fiction
  texts linked to sex and the aging female body\, including: Victoria Smith
 s Hags: The Demonization of Middle-Aged Women\, Linda Hess’ Queer Aging 
 in North American Fiction\, and Carleen Brice’s anthology Age Ain’t No
 thing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife.\n\n
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