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  • I Wasn’t Excited for My Top Surgery. That Doesn’t Negate My Desire for It

    Expansion doesn’t have to be sure or aware of itself

    May 7 - Billy Lezra
    Personal Narrative

    The Decisions Affecting My Body Were Always Made By Someone Else

    I only wanted to be asked how I felt, how I wanted to approach my treatment

    Apr 30 - Aleina Grace Edwards
    Personal Narrative

    My Mother Lived and Died in a Polluted Ecotone

    I don’t know if unseen toxicities caused her cancer, but I can’t pull myself away from the question

    Apr 23 - Sarah Giragosian
    Personal Narrative

    Observations from Inside Immigration Court

    ICE regularly detains people in these very hallways, often violently separating children from their parents

    Apr 16 - Laurie Lathem
    Personal Narrative

    We Were Too Young to Understand What Happened With the Man in the White Van

    The moment changed us without our understanding why

    Apr 9 - Angela Pelster
    Personal Narrative

    What Was Lost When My Daughter Gained Sound

    Before my daughter’s surgery, I wanted to make the right choice

    Apr 2 - Christie Chapman
    Personal Narrative

    Instructions for Repairing a Robot Black Boy

    For my whole life, people have seemed too fleshy. I don’t understand how they can feel so deeply

    Mar 26 - Martheaus Perkins
    Personal Narrative

    I Can’t Make Narrative Sense of My Mother Losing Her Memory

    How do I make it into story, this unraveling mind, while I’m still disappearing in front of it?

    Mar 19 - Veronica Vo
    Personal Narrative

    I Was Never the Kind of Indian Girl That Indian Guys Liked

    We were giddy with our luck at having found each other after years of meeting people who weren’t right

    Mar 12 - Kalpana Narayanan
    Personal Narrative

    Masking My Autism Made Me Sick

    The rules dictated that I hide not only my sensitivity but my essential being in the world

    Mar 5 - Sarah Jane Cody
    Personal Narrative

    I Wanted My Fiancé to Fight the Racist Men Who Harassed Me

    His instinct was to get me out of there instead, and I never forgave him for it

    Feb 26 - Savala Nolan
    Personal Narrative

    Attempting to Garden My Way Out of Sadness

    I didn’t know why I was doing it at the time, but something had short-circuited inside me and I now lived for these plants

    Feb 19 - Geetha Iyer
    Personal Narrative
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