Bodies

People | Bodies
Missing Hope: A Trio of Miscarriages, and What Happened After

I have been afraid most days of my life, which is what anxiety is, and the months of this pregnancy have been the most anxious of my life.

May 9, 2018
People | Bodies
Talent Isn’t Enough When You’re a Fat Ballerina

“What does it mean when your body is your art? Can a thicker brush not make just as beautiful strokes?”

May 3, 2018
People | Bodies
Silence Is Not Consent: On #MeToo and Neurodivergent Survivors of Sexual Assault

I hope the voices of people who haven’t necessarily had the words when they needed them can also be heard.

Feb 26, 2018
People | Bodies
On Miscarriage, Motherhood, and Wanting to Control What You Cannot See

On the day when two pink lines stared up at me, I wondered which set of events I had set in motion. A baby? Or not a baby?

Feb 15, 2018
People | Bodies
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.

Jan 30, 2018
People | Bodies
Scarred

Even when I think I am at peace, when I think I have healed, I find myself still thinking of my scar.

Jan 18, 2018
People | Bodies
Men Who Are Ready to Devour the Young

My changing body made me the object of stares and comments from men far older than my father.

Jan 9, 2018
People | Bodies
Disfiguration: How to Locate the Soul in Your New Face

Here is how the story of your new face begins.

Dec 21, 2017
People | Bodies
Guidelines to a Safe Abortion in Nigeria

“Culture should change as people do because people should define culture.”

Dec 5, 2017
People | Bodies
Men Stop Me Running

At fifty yards, I wave like I see someone I know. Ten feet away, I flash my pepper spray.

Nov 13, 2017