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Wheelchair Worship
Image: Close-up of legs and feet resting on a footrest and gray wheel of an electric wheelchair. Feet are clad in black patent-leather maryjanes with 4-inch heels, laced with ribbon. When this...
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I’m a bit of a clotheshorse for someone on a thrift store budget. Just a few weeks ago, I found myself fretting about what to wear to a party—did I want to go more femme, or masculine? To follow the...
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The Cost of Devaluing Male Submission: One Token
The BDSM blogosphere has been all aflutter lately about the devaluation of male submission. And it’s about fucking time. Because the kink scene treats male subs as if they are unwanted, uninvited...
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Today is Love Your Body day. I feel like a fraud talking about loving my body today–I don’t particularly love it. You see, my body and I have a complicated relationship. Right now, as I’m writing...
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I have recently jumped back into the wonderful world of dating. I have to educate people in my personal life, which is incredibly emotionally exhausting. Not only does it require me to be immediately...
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Courage
Trigger warning: needles The first time I ever stuck a needle into myself was four years ago. I was twenty-two. I was terrified. I had just been diagnosed with yet another enigmatic, difficult to treat...
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The Broken Temple
The Broken Column, Frieda Kahlo This is about my body. My body is many things. It houses my soul. It has caused me more suffering than possibly anything else in my life. And, also, it’s beautiful....
View ArticleMargaret
As she lay dying, we made the long drive back from his parents’ house. By which I mean, he was driving, not me. I don’t drive, I don’t know how. First I wasn’t allowed to because I wasn’t old enough,...
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I wanted to give blood today. I have never donated blood before, only had it taken from me for the purposes of diagnosis or maintenance. It’s not that I was unwilling; I was forbidden from this...
View ArticleHow to Save a Life
Six and a half years ago, I started taking a medication that changed my life, drastically, for the better. There is no doubt in my mind that without starting this medication, I would not be writing...
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