Dec 01, 2020
A Pregnancy, a Pandemic, and a Pear Tart
When I first discovered I was pregnant, we were deep into a very strange spring.
When I first discovered I was pregnant, we were deep into a very strange spring.
I still wonder, what is the right amount of time to grieve?
Ironically, the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown gave me the time to embrace wild swimming—just when I needed my lifeline most.
At detention centers, these prized possessions go straight into the trash. A devastating omen for the way immigrants are treated in this country.
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
It’s relieving when you find someone who feels the same way you do about Covid-19 risk and public safety. But what about those who disagree?
Like so much in life, your voice works effortlessly—until, one day, it doesn’t.
“I can tell I love you because I want to give you a bite of whatever I’m eating.”
Fashion is about more than looking good, or feeling comfortable—it’s about how your clothes tell your story.
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.
My connections to the country and its people, my family, didn’t require control or even words. Touch, color, and togetherness were enough.
Our Halloween traditions hearken back to rituals of dispelling threats through communal acts of giving and receiving.
But was there a better way to put these pronunciations on the page?
To these writers, saunf occurred in the world as a curiosity, but not as an inevitability.
When I look at my personal aesthetic (if I could call it that), I see something that gives me room to move through binaries.
Could I really not keep anything from the unbearable whiteness of being?
Maybe these home remedies aren’t just tricks or distractions. Maybe they are insistences on our well-being.
Though she lives, some part of Korra—the flame throwing hothead, insistent on taking up space—does not survive.
I couldn't afford to live on academic wages, so I became a dominatrix. But after Covid-19, the risks became too great.
Nora Feely on cancer, facing her fears by naming them, and navigating a world filled with sharks
