Bodies
Longboarding My Way Out of Loneliness
When I tried to skateboard as a kid, the neighborhood boys refused to welcome me. Now, women and gender-diverse people are creating skateboarding communities all over the world.
How Did Vicks VapoRub Become Every Brown Person’s Cure-All?
Maybe these home remedies aren’t just tricks or distractions. Maybe they are insistences on our well-being.
On Sex Work and Risk During a Pandemic
I couldn’t afford to live on academic wages, so I became a dominatrix. But after Covid-19, the risks became too great.
On Sharks, Sickness, and Swimming Anyway
Nora Feely on cancer, facing her fears by naming them, and navigating a world filled with sharks
An Enzyme and a Marathon Gave Me Hope After My Assault
I decided to try to find a more complete scientific narrative about trauma instead of accepting damage as a foregone conclusion.
I Am Partially Deaf and I Write to Be Heard
Why can’t the abled world fit into our world?
Trying to Conceive Feels a Little Bit Less Awful Than Not Trying
It isn’t my job to bear as much pain as I possibly can to prove that I am somehow worthy of becoming a mother. Why is it so hard to remember this?
What I Learned About the Women I Love on the Other Side of the Battle With My Body
It took about a year for me to understand the bulimia was an expression of my anger. A way to hurt my body and myself, and a desperate attempt to regain normalcy.
Finally, at Fifty, I Can See Myself
I participated in the betrayal of my face because it’s easy to do when your thoughts about beauty are colonized and your appearance is a battleground.
Murder Nights
It was as if I needed a third surgery, a reconstruction. I needed the surgeon to rebuild what he tore out.