Karlita | Tale Out Loud asked K.Y. Robinson:

Hi K.Y., I'm currently reading your book, what inspires you to write both the inception and longing part collections? I didn't know how can someone be moved and cried over short forms of paragraph or a piece of poetry, until now..

K.Y. Robinson Inception for me was going back in time. To see where the chaos began. Struggling with mental illness, low self-esteem, feeling lost, and trauma shaped the way I loved and how I failed to love myself.

Longing was inspired by my need to turn lust into love. Being in a constant state of longing for anything that resembled it. It was also about taking my body back. I assert my sexual agency as an act of resistance. After being traumatized repeatedly, I felt that my body and any notion of pleasure wasn’t mine to embrace and experience. I wanted to take my power back.

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