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About Me — Zara Everly
Hello! I am Zara Everly
I like to jokingly refer to myself as a literary harlot. It is a lovely phrase, isn’t it? I can’t take the credit for that. That would be Virginia Woolf who referred to writing book reviews as literary harlotry- as she primarily did so as a means to generate extra income (although because we ARE referring to Virginia Woolf, her book reviews are absolutely brilliant, so she is hardly a hack).
So, this preceding paragraph says quite a bit about me. Let me explain.
Let’s start with harlot. Of course, I am not actually a harlot. I don’t get paid for sex. Well at least, I don’t think so. I get paid a little for writing about sex and I don’t think that is sex work. I don’t think so?
Anyway, I also have a habit of just referring to myself by names that have been historically used to silence and/or subjugate women and specifically words such as slut and hag.
