bodies

Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

The Author of “Woodworking” Explores What It Means to Transition in Art and Life

 
By Emily St. James  March 5, 2025
The Body

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich  February 10, 2025
Illness

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

By Traci Brimhall  November 19, 2024
Celebrities

Sweating in Public: On Jane Fonda’s Dance Aerobics Empire and Progressive Politics

By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela  February 3, 2023
On Poetry

On Seeing and Being Seen: Poet Ama Codjoe in Conversation with Maggie Millner

By Maggie Millner  October 7, 2022
What to Watch

Stuck in a Spaceship: On The Expanse and Redrawing the Lines of a Body

By Allison Wyss  August 23, 2022
Biology

Strange Mechanisms: How, Exactly, Do We Breathe?

By MeiLan K. Han, MD  November 23, 2021
Reading Lists

Nine Unabashed Books
About Bodies

By Cai Emmons  March 25, 2020
Social Media

What Does “NSFW” Mean in the Age of Social Media?

By Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, and Ben Light  November 8, 2019
Super Heroes

Monster or Marvel? A Disabled Life in
a Superhero Universe

By Amanda Leduc  April 26, 2019
Essay

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

By Maggie Levantovskaya  October 2, 2018
Essay

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

By M. Sophia Newman  October 26, 2017
Conversations

Carmen Maria Machado on Campfire Stories and Queer Teen Touchstones

By Claire Luchette  October 6, 2017
Close Reading

The Unreality of Coming of Age

By Clare Sestanovich  August 21, 2017
Conversations

How to Write a Poem About a Cemetery: Speaking with Jennifer Firestone

By MC Hyland  July 20, 2017
Excerpts

The Mysteries of the Pancreas: Of the Body, Cancer, and Death

By Wendy Call  June 15, 2017
Deep Dive

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror

By Rebecca Harkins-Cross  June 8, 2017
Personal Essay

Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us: On Living with Trauma

By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich  May 24, 2017
Deep Dive

The Price Tag of Being a Woman

By Melynda Fuller  May 17, 2017
Personal Essay

Finding a Room of One’s Own on the Mexico City Metro

By Madeleine Wattenbarger  March 8, 2017
Conversations

Silence is a Ghost: Jane Wong and Aditi Machado in Conversation

By Literary Hub  February 24, 2017
Conversations

Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

By Literary Hub  December 6, 2016
Essay

Learning to Embrace Guanxi: On Living Communally in China

By Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers  October 20, 2016
Criticism

How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2016
Poets

What Does It Mean to Be a Poet in the Face of Violence?

By Adriana E. Ramírez  August 30, 2016
Feature

On Machines That Shit, and Fictional Characters That Do Not

By Benjamin Hale  June 6, 2016
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