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The Politics of Sex: Writing Transgression in a World That Pretends to Be Polite
A personal reflection on sex as political language and the role of transgressive fiction in exposing how women’s desires are controlled across cultures. From Iran to Paris, the post explores why female autonomy remains taboo, how the Lust in Paris trilogy challenges these narratives, and why the first book Red Wings speaks to today’s global debates on power, identity and womanhood.

Neda Aria
Nov 215 min read
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Writing the Female Gaze: Narrative Strategies for Reclaiming Perspective
Explore how the female gaze reclaims narrative perspective in literature by centering women as subjects of desire, interpretation, and agency. This article examines theoretical foundations, examples across global traditions, and practical strategies for writers to subvert the male gaze, reframe embodiment, and create narratives that foreground women’s voices, complexity, and power.

Neda Aria
Sep 127 min read
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From Witch to Warrior: Archetypes of Female Rebellion in Literature
This article explores female archetypes in literature (the witch, femme fatale, martyr, and warrior) and how they reflect both resistance and patriarchal fear. Through six subversive strategies and examples from the author’s works (Bella Donna, Us, Women, Counting Crows, Red Wings), it advocates for complex, layered portrayals of women that challenge reductive tropes and reimagine archetypes as sites of narrative and political transformation.

Neda Aria
Aug 87 min read
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Angry Women in Literature: Rage as a Narrative Force
An exploration of how feminist literature transforms female rage into a narrative engine—examining its structural, political, and aesthetic functions in stories by and about women.

Neda Aria
Aug 16 min read
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Eroticism and Empowerment: Navigating Female Desire in Writing
Female desire in fiction isn’t always soft, safe, or empowering—and that’s exactly the point. From Lust in Paris to Animal and Adèle, feminist literature is reclaiming eroticism as power, not performance. These stories explore messy, dangerous, and unapologetic female desire, challenging the sanitized norms of sexuality in fiction. Let women want. Let them burn. Let their longing disrupt the page—and everything it touches.

Neda Aria
Jul 183 min read
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A History of Transgressive Feminist Literature
Transgressive feminist literature doesn’t seek approval. It doesn’t heal, uplift, or behave. Instead, it dives into rage, obsession, madness, and sexual power—without apology. From Medea to Moshfegh, this mode of writing centers women as complex, carnal, cruel, and unsanitized. This isn't about empowerment through perfection—it's about the freedom to be unlikable, unreadable, and unforgettable. Here's a deep dive into its history.

Neda Aria
Jul 1113 min read
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