Office Hours with the Dean: Meet Cute

What does it mean to desire without apologizing for it? In this installment of Office Hours with the Dean, Danyelle Thomas reflects on eight years of singleness, purity culture, romantic agency, digital intimacy, and the kind of meet-cute she actually wants: one where a man encounters her mind before he encounters her body. Moving from Threads to the Song of Songs, she reclaims feminine desire as active, searching, embodied, and narratively powerful. The woman of the text does not wait passively to be chosen. She wants. She seeks. She goes looking. This is not a story about begging to be desired. It is a story about choosing to want—and remaining open to what might meet you there. Come be in good company while you reconsider.