Postpartum Tea: Taking Care While Changing Identity
“It is a bewildering and lonely thing to be so attached to another human and also feel so adrift and so alone.”
Catherine LaSota is the founder of the LIC Reading Series in Long Island City, Queens. Her essays and interviews appear in Vice, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other places. Follow her on Twitter @catherinelasota
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