People
Death of a Hen
If life is a precious gift that is over when it is over, how are we to stomach a death that comes too soon?
Treating Migraines: How Women Are Harmed by Gendered Medical Language
I’ve gotten incapacitating headaches since I was a kid.
The Difference a Meal Makes: On Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food
Nothing had changed from the night before—except for the certainty that everything had changed. Food as I had always known it was now in the past.
“We’re not going to change the laws until we tell the stories of the silenced”: Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle on Theatre, History, the Law, and Native Sovereignty
“There is this idea that American Indians are a remnant of the past, not people who have voices and important stories to be shared today.”
Piano Women: The Artists Who Helped Me Subvert the Music Industry’s Obsession With Categorizing My Body
The day-to-day negotiation I faced as a mixed-race woman made me resist the idea that classifying myself and my body was the only way to get my music heard.
Cancer Vs. Blindness
Blindness can be a pain in the ass, and infantilizing, even depressing sometimes, but it is not cancer.
“Negrophobia”: A Novel by Darius James
Published in 1992, “Negrophobia” was a wild romp through a racially charged dreamscape.
I’m a Disabled Woman Who Wants to See More Literary Characters Like Me
Searching the cultural landscape for references and role models, it’s not easy to find many women simply living their lives while disabled.
Strangers to Our Teeth: What We Judge When We Judge “Bad Teeth”
My bad teeth are slowly shrinking my world. They are not of my body; they haunt my body.
Strains of Melancholy: Thumri and the Indian Music of Waiting
Thumri explores the dual sides of love: union as well as the pangs of separation.