Jarred Thompson is a queer researcher and academic whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published in various journals, notably the Johannesburg Review of Books, The Gerald Kraak Award Anthology Volume 3 and ImageOutWrite Anthology. He recently won the inaugural 2020 Afritondo Short Story Award. 

Jarred’s piece in Living While Feminist is called ‘The social dynamics of penetration’ and in that piece he says:

The social dynamics of masculinity, femininity and gay sexual positions made me think about how the act of penetration or being penetrated, comes with assumptions about masculinity and how one portrays oneself as a gay man.

Jarred and I talk about gender norms, masculine and feminine energy, yoga, and writing.