unSEXpected: Shooting your shot
Whether you’re nervous about batting your eyes at the cutie in your 9am tutorial, or frantically using ChatGPT to write a good response to a Hinge prompt, putting yourself out there can be really hard.
Konstanz Muller Hering
Konstanz (she/ they) is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based writer and QUT Creative Writing graduate. Konstanz was a Glass editor, and now contributes as an alumni.
UnSEXpected: Fabricating closure
Closure is not an act I’ve ever managed to control. For as long as I’ve loved, it’s always been out of reach. I’ve had so many conversations, read so many books, and watched so many movies where the main characters talk about catching up with an ex-something to reach closure.
unSEXpected: Managing Delusions & Delusionships
You have to reject rationality, develop a parasocial relationship with a TikTok tarot reader who encourages your pursuits, choose to hope despite having little to nothing to go off of, and then you’ve pretty much got it!
unSEXpected: Talking about Porn
Pornography is content that has been created with the intent to turn you on. And the internet is full of it.
unSEXpected: Drawing the Line Between Compromise and Settling
The realisation that you could, and maybe should, be getting more out of your relationship is bittersweet. On one hand, it’s comforting to know the kind of love you crave isn’t unreasonable, that it exists somewhere and could very well be yours in future.
Shorties: An insider look at QUT’s student-run film festival
QUT is home to over a hundred clubs and societies that create fun events for entertainment and networking purposes all year round. And the QUT Film Club is one of them.
unSEXpected: Understanding Kinks and Fetishes
“I cannot Dom for the life of me.” We’re sitting on my couch, wide-eyed and giggling. You are bathed in soft orange light, a glass of wine in hand. We are, yet again, talking about sex, and no detail is…
unSEXpected: A Memoir on Sex after Sexual Assault
*content warning: sexual assault We are at a launch party, drunk and giddy, and I am leaning into you with a wide smile on my face. You say the words “I love you, sweetie” with eyebrows furrowed the same you…
unSEXpected x Respect Week: the Intimacy of Foreplay Vs the Casualness of Hook-Up Culture
Foreplay is a series of acts that build sexual arousal and pleasure, through physical touch, and mental and emotional stimulation. In the game of sex, foreplay is considered the pre-game. Like most things in life, it works on a case-by-case…
unSEXpected x Respect Week: Emotional Safety in the World of Online Dating
I’m convinced dating apps are parallel worlds built into our phones with off-the-chart ratings of audacity. In person, no one would just randomly hand you a mirror selfie of themselves in tighty whities, unprompted (I hope), but online? It is…
