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“The Many Sick Mothers of My Heart.” Life at the Intersection of Sickness and Trauma

“The Many Sick Mothers of My Heart.” Life at the Intersection of Sickness and Trauma

Margeaux Feldman Considers Individual and Societal Attitudes Towards Physical, Mental and Chronic Illness

By Margeaux Feldman | September 22, 2025

How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

“A blood clot and a bullet are very different things. But both have the ability to take and twist a life.”

By Trymaine Lee | September 17, 2025

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

“Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.”

By Isabella DeSendi | September 15, 2025

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

“As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

By P.E. Moskowitz | September 11, 2025

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

“A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”

By Seema Jilani | August 29, 2025

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

Polly Atkin Consider the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

By Polly Atkin | August 26, 2025

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The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

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Ruthie Ackerman: “We are everything that ever happened to us.”

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Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

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