Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Individual Photographer Books and joy at its center

and joy at its center

and writers fighting for trans liberation

' and all those Godfather movies

Why not a full-on European hookup competition

Park Slope

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Individual Photographer Books and joy at its centerA searing portrait of a mother's body a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor's office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh tissue that overheals to become its own wound.