Andrea Long Chu, a transgender writer who has admitted to changing genders due to pornography use, won a Pulitzer prize for cultural criticism Monday.

Chu, who is male and identifies as a transgender woman, has written that the “barest essentials” of “femaleness” are “an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes” and described femaleness as “defined by self-negation” including “any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another.” Chu has also written about sissy porn, a category of pornography in which men are forced into feminine sex roles, conceding that “sissy porn did make me trans.”

[Yes, that’s precisely the voice of cultural criticism one would expect to get rewarded by the Pulitzer committee … the same committee that rewarded all of the “Russia-collusion” reporting at the NYT and Washington Post, and the committee that still won’t rescind Walter Duranty’s prize for helping Joseph Stalin cover up his genocide in Ukraine. — Ed]