Aly Tadros

Aly Tadros is the Assistant Director of the Sexual Violence Response at Columbia Medical School, a position that allows her to bridge her expertise in trauma recovery and kink-affirming care. Formerly a touring singer-songwriter, she brings a robust platform, including a 2K+ Substack following, regular podcast appearances, and a strong network within feminist, queer, and kink communities. To date, her essays and articles have been published in The New York Times, Narratively, The Brooklyn Rail, and she's been featured in USAToday and Interview Magazine, among others. Recently, she was featured on The Modern Love Podcast for her essay “Dominate Me, But Not Like That.” She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens College, and lives in New York.

ON SUBMISSION (Memoir)
As a biracial, queer woman raised between an Evangelical church and an Egyptian immigrant household, Aly was taught to tether her worth to men and institutions—first the church, then alcohol, and finally, dominant partners. On Submission examines the power dynamics she once sought out in submission and ultimately learned to rewrite. With intimacy and critical inquiry, the book explores the world of kink while speaking to themes of desire, agency, trauma recovery, and feminist re-education. In doing so, it positions kink, a realm that more and more people are increasingly fascinated by, as both a site of danger and liberation.

ON SUBMISSION will appeal to fans of Maggie Nelson, Melissa Febos, and adrienne maree brown—readers hungry for narratives that do not flinch from the intersections of sexuality, power, and healing. Though interest in BDSM and nontraditional relationships is growing, no major memoir to date has examined female submission from the inside out with the intellectual rigor and lived experience this book brings, given the way it interweaves feminist theory into the narrative.

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Agent: Zeynep Sen