“The anonymity of my disease has become a very sacred thing when something as personal as my own body is out of my control”
Read More“I sat in the parking lot alone half an hour after the appointment. Tears and frustration filled the first ten minutes, and when those dried, I sat numb in the driver’s seat, unable to think clearly. Questions raced through my head — Did I want to freeze my eggs? Should I get a hysterectomy? If I had been treated earlier, could something else have been done?”
Read More“The moment that I try to make sense out of this composition, I become responsible for what I see; there is so much in front of me that everything I name is a choice, even without me realizing.”
Read MoreAlex and Greta love YA novels, so they enlisted guest writer Michael Waters to help make a list of the best ones.
(image from the Claremont Public Library — the very library that Alex and Michael have visited together in search of YA novels.)
Read More“The reality is that there’s really just one, maybe two, ways that society expects boobs to look, and that expectation leaves the majority of people with boobs feeling alienated in their bodies.”
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