Why "Happy Ever After" is Radical Restorative Justice

Mood: Intellectually combative but wishing I could have a masculine man hold my face. I was listening to a literary podcast the other day—a mistake, usually, as they tend to discuss books that don't have an audiobook version written by people who wouldn't look at me on the street—and the host let out a long, beleaguered sigh. "I just can’t do Romance," he said, his voice dripping with that…