I can't watch the dead-girl SVUs anymore. I can't watch the dead-girl movies or read the dead-girl books. I can't listen to the dead-girl podcasts or read the dead-girl articles. I know many women can. Many women make them! And they have their reasons, whether because they are too colonized to see the cannibalization or because they've passed through the vortex and emerged, enlightened, into some post-gendered-violence world that I can't imagine, or something else. But I can't do it. I have shut the door to my mind; I don't want to take it in.
--in Don't Let It Get You Down (2021)