Eve Eurydice speaks with Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick, Brown Album, The Last Illusion, Sons and Other Flammable objects, intellectual valley girl recipient of a 2012 NEA. She’s a girl after my own heart—plus we both have Persian last names, similar moms, experimental prose writer creds, mold survival expertise, & sexual fluidity. We talk about divesting ourselves of the Patriarchy Aesthetic & the Addiction to Materialism which is America’s fundamentalism. If we no longer equate good with profitable, we can evaluate our choices & the choices of others in socially meaningful, impactful ways. Profit drove Americans to sell kidnapped humans to each other & profit is keeping social equality & health care limited to those who can afford it & privatized. Are we committed to freedom or to profitability? If we choose Freedom, we must learn to speak truth, & this is when we speak sex.