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SOFTCORE is a newsletter by Laura Delarato, author of "My Pleasure," exploring self-pleasure, intimacy, art, and beauty. Welcome to the undone bed. 🕯️
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a water gurl who fears the sea (opens the original)
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Hello reader, Still on honeymoon, still in Greece, still eating a Greek Salad every single day. Today’s essay is one of guttural purging, of intertwined truths, of what our fears teach us. But first:current wants:Kiki Petrosino’s “Perfect Italian” book of poems exploring cultural inheritance, grief, and connection as a Black and Italian American. to spend a whole weekend lino cutting and stamping. money. a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DdcQ7Vqgj1
i’ve awakened a goddess (opens the original)
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I'm writing this from a nude beach in Naxos, Greece.I am not nude. I am wearing a hodgepodge black bottoms and white top bikini. I'm very cold, it’s a little rainy here but the water is making this operatic sound as it pulls across the volcanic rock. The nude people aren’t phased by the weather. <di
i have an appetite for want (opens the original)
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I’m frugal. Literally, psychologically, financially.I cut my toothpaste containers until I get to the last swipe of Colgate. I’ll own a bra for far too long. I won’t allow myself to get my hopes up. Some of this behavior comes from unfixed stuff from growing up and feeling like, as an existence, I was too much. Too much to take care of, i.e. why my parents didn’t want to. Too much to hold, which is why I always felt too big. Blah blah blah. There’s the running list of the stories we tell ourselv
to be seen (opens the original)
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mean fats (opens the original)
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I have always felt like I don’t have power. To affect anything. To cause a ripple. To hurt people. How could I? But I totally can. But I’m here to say: there is no one meaner than a mean fat girl. I was on a diet at nine. Atkins at thirteen. I have been on the receiving end of my family telling me I needed to lose weight, of dates who made me the joke, of men at bars who came up to me and said: you look a lot bigger when you stand up. The only effect I felt like I had when I walked into a room w
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