BINDER ARCHIVES 
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We Like
Dick
A project by Erika Mikkalo with: ANAIS, Angela Altenhofen, Jennifer Bauer & Karen Gollrad, Julie Cabell, Raina Cowan, Sylvia Edstrom, Diane Green, Shawna Holman, Antonia B. Johnston, Maire Kennedy, K. Madeleine Kohler, Lo Art, Kelly Marie Martin, Erika Mikkalo, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Phloe, Melissa Schubeck, Sister Serpents, Anne Van der Linden, Laural Winter, and Elizabeth Yokas "Women's libidinousness is either repressed
or held against them." Penises are silly. Their owners frequently seem to be inordinately proud of their mere existence. I conceived of 'We Like Dick' for the binder project out of the hope that women would engage in a celebration of cock, laugh at it, interpret it as an object of pleasure, bemusement, or disappointment, but the submissions reflect inevitable ambivalence, that is to say, reality. The more compelling or comic aspects of the phallus were accompanied by submissions recollecting rape or romantic betrayal. Ultimately, I decided to include all rather than exercising editorial control. It was more important to me that the contents of the binder reflect a range of honest voices than subscribe to my preconceived structure, a perception of prick colored by wishful thinking, that the presence of penis is a consistently happy experience for women. Apparently not. I also selected the subject 'We Like Dick' precisely because that is the last thing that women are supposed to say. The absurd virgin/whore dichotomy still exists, and women are not supposed to acknowledge that they can, indeed, like sex. So a particular thanks to all contributors, women who are willing to stand up and declare that they have experiences with, thoughts about, and memories regarding their own genitals and others'. - Erika Mikkalo
"Penis Skirt" - Julie Cabel
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