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chronic-illness

Posted on December 4, 2018 December 7, 2018

Ode To My Clumsy: The Feminism Of The Awkward Body

Leora Fridman
Written by
Leora Fridman
Posted in
Brain+Body, Society+Politics
Tagged
bodies, chronic-illness, Growing Up, queer, relationships

To be clumsy is not to be fragile: it is to know that one is breakable, and to live (speak, interact) knowing this. Read more

Posted on October 26, 2018 October 29, 2018

Tattoos, Pain, And Incurable Illness

Ace Ratcliff
Written by
Ace Ratcliff
Posted in
Brain+Body
Tagged
bodies, chronic pain, chronic-illness, disability, tattoo
a skull set in front of a wall of tattoo flash

I wasn’t so focused on the painful bite of the needle anymore, or wondering when the session would end. I started to look forward to the distraction of the hurt. It was a hurt I could opt-into, one I could select. Read more

Posted on March 14, 2017 October 25, 2018

I Suppressed My Periods To Save My Health

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Written by
Michelle Marie Wallace
Posted in
import-sept-12-2016-2017, Society+Politics
Tagged
brain-body, chronic-illness, Health, lyme-disease, menstruation

My chronic illness made it impossible for me to have both a menstrual cycle and a life. Read more

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