“Lovers are a welcoming subculture”

It’s Sunday morning. Light streams through the window and illuminates the amarillo cornice and white squares above the living room table. Every day we are desperate and like every day we eat with a cup of coffee with milk and a tostada of water.

“Do we want to hang out with him as friends?”” Sara asks me. We all listen and sleep, knowing how lucky we are to be here every morning, to share the space and care that creates sweetness in our hearts.

“Thus we have spent so many nights and so many mornings in this house. We can’t pretend: at the end, An erotic thought (Reservoir Books, 2026) e.g conversation between friends at the table at home. An idea that arises not in abstraction but in shared intimidation.

If you adjust the dark mechanism behind your ear and put it in your hands. Immediately the loss gathers in his arms and calms down. Sara Torres (Gijón, 1991) published this article, “A transtemporal chorus of loving voices, occasionally mistaken for something like my own voice”write in the introduction.

Lust for life

You cannot proceed by avoiding writing this opinion. “When I was asked about the specifics of lesbian desire in my thesis, I thought to myself, why is the question useless to me; I also needed to understand how body education works in the heterosexual world.”

This book was born over many years working on this question: what is shared by desire in the world of fantasy and images. “Y parallel comes from the search — also in the first person — from practices that overcome the inertia of this shared fantasy“.

As the French philosopher Monique Wittig said, only a creative and imaginative worker can offer alternatives to the heterosexual regime. Sara proposes the figure of the lesbian lover: an “eccentric” subject, displaced from the symbolic center.

The term is Teresa de Lauretis, a delusional woman for several days who spoke about the feminist situation in tension with the patriarchal norm. According to him, this eccentricity arises from Wittig, who thinks that “lesbians do not know the world only as women, not even as a political subject and a desire to escape the heterosexual contract.”

Then the author insists on the idea: “I like to think that we only know the world from the norm”. If “not alone”, it is the inevitable experience of a child who, if allowed to be creative, brings differences into the relationship.

Recycle your imagination

If desire is formed in a hegemonic heterosexual imagination, the lover is not part of it. It must be recycled. Recreate your symbol using the same materials that contain it. Work actively on behalf of the desire that comes into conflict with the basis that produces it. “This recycling is a creature, but it also survives.

In the book, you will return to the recycling places of your childhood. De niña, sing my friendby Alejandro Sanza, pronouncing a distinction that no other name would ever have. Recycling is full of ahí: using a language that was not suitable for you and vibrating it without embargo.

“If humble people admit their own idiosyncrasies, they’ll show up in this matter with a lot of experience of being out there, and then they’ll self-regulate to get there.” And now the paths bifurcate: recognize the edge as you can, or correct yourself to turn to the center.

Escape page

Lovers who summon the book flee. They recycle: they participate in a shared fantasy, but still have other places. For the same writer, escapism has a mode of existence.

The common image of a body doomed to escape is inevitably associated with permanent anxiety, but Sara gives it a shot. “Carmen Rojas always says it, yyo with her: the lover’s escape does not leave her to the elements as long as she is protected and generates possible places. It’s livable.”

It’s not something you want. It comes from prohibitions and punishments, yes, but it aims to have a horizon of sweetness, an emotional place that exists. According to him, the question is where to place it, with whom to share it, in which common world to inscribe it.

But the beauty is that everything happens in the present. “While I’m running away, I’ll do this: build this place”. This idea resonated with José Esteban Muñoz, who spoke of utopia as a no-go that must be made in the same gesture of desire.

“This house is a utopia. It’s very material,” she says, looking at her husband. The book contains the genealogy of the lovers through them the voices of various philosophers to record that many hearts had taken refuge there before.

“It’s a particular subculture, that of lovers, that offers hospitality, even if it’s difficult, because it lives between the margins of conversation.” Gloria Anzaldúa, Djuna Barnes, Mary Oliver and many others lived on this escape with political consciousness. And if you’re wondering, turn to your imagination.

Transform images

If the desire is formed in inherited images, do not stop denying it. Sara claims it can transform her. “We do not choose the first images that are tied to our idea of ​​sexuality. They appear as a secret in childhood and later as an explicit repertoire”.

As we deny ourselves all images associated with libidinal energy, it is likely that we will also deny access to this energy. On the other side: “Convocar ciertas estructuras normatives y retorcerlas”.

Don’t destroy the game point, but redirect it. Recycling reappears here in a different form. The bow is drawn, but the sight does not match the fate of the arrow. “Rolling on the ground like someone who doesn’t want to go,” he writes.

Amazon lover

Represented by the artists Carla Cervantes Caro and Mònica Figueras Domènech, the Amazon lover is not just the bearer of the book. It embodies the collective idea of ​​this idea, followed by an ethical compass that pays attention to what is happening. Hold the yearning body with your bow. “It is the moment when life intensifies erotic desire”Sara explains.

This tension, which is usually seen as an obstacle to everyday life, is now changing in orientation. The erotic thought is the arc that invites its readers to follow it for further possible creativity.

The Pilgrim Amazon lets go of the other, not knowing what she hopes for, with no guarantee of fate. “There is something very powerful about this ability of lovers to accept a bus, a plane, a fireplace in any place. It is an act of generosity and openness to possibility.”

The Y doesn’t mean it’s getting lost in the mix. “There is no place where you can’t always be in a relationship.” And this idea disarms the capitalist and patriarchal logic that promises a previously written destiny.

Protect life

The book is thick but not heavy. It will give shape to a world where the dialectic of domination does not work, where blind desire persists, moving in its direction under the weight of patriarchal symbolic law. There is a form of peace in your search for sweetness.

“Erotic thinking is the practice of deshacer the inertia of thought,” he says. “Slowing down may be the only way to avoid the destruction of all sentiments: political, material, economic, bodily.” It’s not just about being slower, it’s about releasing the focus that protects life together.

The thought soared the current life of the strange body I wanted to write about while the genocide was unfolding before our eyeswith Carmen’s hand between her suyas. This historical weather intersects and supports the book.

“I knew a love whose language could enliven my life instead of leaving me trapped in the holes of doubt, my heart, and conflict.” After all, desire also turns political: “When you get it, you wonder that others live it. Not only in romance, but also in friendship, even with non-humans.”

His feet moved in unison from the bottom of the table; suben and bajan in the same rhythm as they listen to a tune that only they fit. Let’s see if this is what Sara Torres wants to offer us. “To avoid the caracol, he is slower than he is”I wrote when the coffee was ready in our cups.