People
The Two Sides of American Health Care
This dichotomy in American health care is well-known to patients with chronic illness.
Learning the Limits of Nonviolence
Trying to reason with someone hell-bent on eradicating your existence is not only futile but also impossible.
On Houses, Ghosts, and “Good Bones”
When we moved out of our house, I wondered: How much of our presence is still there? How much do we haunt the place?
What Reading ‘Nevada’ Across Transition Did For Me
Transition needn’t be a straight line.
Buying My Girlhood Is Putting Me In Debt
Each time I used my credit card, I rationalized my ballooning debt by imagining a future in which I was satisfied with my transition.
Why Wearing a Mask Makes Me Feel Powerful
I’ve actually been masking long before the Covid pandemic.
Always Check the Bathrooms
Whenever I’ve found someone passed out in a bathroom as a bartender, it’s because they’ve well exceeded their personal limit with alcohol. I also can’t help but think it’s because there’s been too little of something else.
The Tortilla Type of Hurt, How One Broke My Heart
What I didn’t say was how much of home each of those packs brought with them.
I Thought I’d Never Find Love After My Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnosis
When you love someone with dissociative identity disorder, you are not building one healthy relationship—you are building many.
The Price of Admission for Fat Bodies
Anyone who has lost and subsequently gained weight back can tell you that you will be treated differently in real, material ways. The difference is at once alluring and painful.