About Erin

This website holds free and focused parts of me- as in art + writing ranging from rough drafts to final pieces.  Sex in My City (SiMC) began by exploring the sexual climate of northern Minnesota. I’ve included my whiteness, gender, creative, and sexual practices alongside dedication to craft. SiMC also inspired me to earn my master’s degree in multidisciplinary research + creativity in 2025. I’ve loved every moment!

Writing for me is a way to flirt with both my wild and contained parts. Sometimes it feels stifling and too solitary, most days though it is my vehicle to freedom and pleasure (somatically and soulfully flavored). Here I wrestle with the need to “perfect” the blog and website for public release. I am deeply dedicated to form, craft, and research alongside the practice of challenging stigma related to pleasure, abortion, queering sex. I also work to decolonize sexuality. White supremacy asserts “one right way” to maintain power over. Queering is about disrupting the status quo- what my creative writing, activism, art, and SiMC stand for. Exploration is charting a path, giving oneself/ourselves enough space and time to complete the adventure. Yes to circling back and/or moving forward in a non-linear way if the first route/try/read doesn’t feel right.

I’ve grown immensely alongside this project. While I’ve given most of my time to SiMC, I invite you to enjoy the brief collection of poetry and creative non fiction I’ve uploaded here too. I’ll continue to add more content in those sections- when there’s less work to do around body autonomy and pleasure activism ;). Feel free to dig in wherever you feel the desire.

Again, SiMC is wild, queer, and contained to represent the place I live. Northern Minnesota is beautiful, ambiguous, and exhausting beyond words. The natural environment requires a focus and badAssery I haven’t experienced anywhere else. The culture is both progressive and constantly reinforces the status quo in fucked up ways (see blog posts about Minnesota Nice). This Midwestern mind game plus minus forty degree wind-chill for weeks on end keeps us contained and self conscious. It also renders some of the most conscientious, kind, hard working and steady supportive creative folx I’ve ever known.

I’ve chosen this home with intention. Born in Miami, Florida, I moved around often before surviving high school in Dallas, Texas. Rural western North Carolina and Burlington, Vermont were my first adult homes. Each place shaped who I am as a white, queer, gender expansive artist committed to feminist, creative, and abolitionist practice rooted in pleasure activism.

As an artist this project speaks to discovering and revealing hidden parts of my self and our shared culture. In certain instances, these posts illustrate what I don’t know (aka un/re-learning + privilege). In others, I’m figuring out creative ways to express my love of information, learning, feminism, poetry, and pleasure. I bring it all to this website and stand committed to honest, deep, playful, earnest, radical, loving exploration of the climates that have shaped who I am alongside my deep desire for body autonomy and collective freedom.

As of 2026, I’ve been writing SiMC posts for nine years (what!!?!) after being awarded an ARAC career grant in 2017 to develop my artist website and this project. Welcome inside a dream of mine in the making.

Location

Duluth, MN