excuse me, but my vagina is getting in the way of my writing

So, last night, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, which I hope you'll all go to today if you're in the area, I went to a Literary Event and got a little hot under the collar. Or, should I say, under the corset.

Before I start, I should say that part of the event was meant to honor a female writer, one of color, no less, who's an amazing writer (okay, I'll stop being coy: Edwidge Danticat, who is from Haiti originally and who is awesome). The second part of the event was the awarding of a ...