Volume Two, part one (the Poetry Module) Is Out (feat. Harmony Corrupted)!

First and foremost, the Poetry Module is out, babes! It is part one of Volume Two (with part two being the Monster Modules) for my Sex Positivity (2023) book project, and extensively features my muse and friend, Harmony Corrupted (featured on its covers, below). The full announcement is up on my website, but I wanted to have a little post here, too, to celebrate and mark the occasion.

(model and artist: Harmony Corrupted and Persephone van der Waard)

About my book: Made in collaboration with other sex workers, Sex Positivity is a four-volume book being released one volume at a time. From newest to oldest, as of 5/1/2024, my Poetry Module is live; as of 2/14/2024, the manifesto/instruction volume is live; as of 10/8/2023, the thesis volume is live. Simply go to my website's 1-page promo and pick up a copy of each for free! While you're there, you can also learn about the other yet-to-release volumes/modules, project history and logo design.

Note: Volume Two, part one is unique, insofar as it can be accessed predominantly on my website in blog book sample form. —Perse

To summarize, the Poetry Module concerns the poetic usage of Gothic poetics during the dialectic of the alien; i.e., nature-as-monstrous-feminine being something to humanize (for workers) during ludo-Gothic BDSM, or to harvest harmfully during the same oppositional praxis except for profit (for the state): during the ghost of the counterfeit's process of abjection as a historical-material loop, a Torment Nexus.

As a whole, the Poetry Module concerns the poetic usage of Gothic poetics during the dialectic of the alien; i.e., nature-as-monstrous-feminine being something to humanize (for workers) during ludo-Gothic BDSM, or to harvest harmfully during the same oppositional praxis except for profit (for the state): during the ghost of the counterfeit's process of abjection as a historical-material loop, a Torment Nexus. I wanted to comment on that mirrored concentrism by writing an impromptu preface the morning of the Poetry Module's debut. Read said preface on my website.

(artist: Harmony Corrupted)

If any of this sounds fun, you can download the full module for free on my website's one-page promo, and access the other available volumes, promo images, project history and more! Access individual samples of the module on my website's blog (which has divided most of the module into separate posts). And please, please consider supporting Harmony's work (on Fansly and Ko-Fi; follow her @harmonycorrupted@noods.fun on Mastodon); this module could not have been written without her inspiration, and she does awesome sex work while raising awareness for sex worker rights on Mastodon (see her whole portfolio, a review of her work, ways you can support her and more on her special promo page on my website)!

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Persephone van der Waard is the author of the multi-volume, non-profit book series, Sex Positivity—its art director, sole invigilator, illustrator and primary editor (the other co-writer/co-editor being Bay Ryan). She has her independent PhD in Gothic poetics and ludo-Gothic BDSM (focusing on partially on Metroidvania), and is a MtF trans woman, anti-fascist, atheist/Satanist, poly/pan kinkster, erotic artist/pornographer and anarcho-Communist with two partners. Including her multiple playmates/friends and collaborators, Persephone and her eighteen muses work/play together on Sex Positivity and on her artwork at large as a sex-positive force. She sometimes writes reviews, Gothic analyses, and interviews for fun on her old blog; or does continual independent research on Metroidvania and speedrunning. If you're interested in her academic/activist work and larger portfolio, go to her About the Author page to learn more; if you're curious about illustrated or written commissions, please refer to her commissions page for more information.