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The body that barfs

Jennine Capó Crucet
Gay Mag
Published in
8 min readApr 17, 2018

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ToTo say I live in an unruly body presupposes that the body and the mind are separate things: I inhabit this place, rather than I am this place. This separation is something I’m working to dismantle for and in myself, though that separation served me very, very well for as long as my body allowed.

So why dismantle it? Because it is the challenge I repeatedly haven’t faced. Because I…

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Jennine Capó Crucet
Gay Mag

Author of MAKE YOUR HOME AMONG STRANGERS and HOW TO LEAVE HIALEAH. Forthcoming essay collection, NEVER IMAGINED ME HERE. First-gen college kid, Latinx, #305.