Unruly, Adjective

The body that says ‘I am here’

Carmen Maria Machado

Published in

Gay Mag

7 min readApr 10, 2018

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disorderly

I am fat, with massive breasts that swing when untended and get raw where the bra meets the skin. Bad hearing in my right ear, horrifically nearsighted. Bone spurs in my ankles…

Carmen Maria Machado

Written by Carmen Maria Machado

Writer for

Gay Mag

✍🏽 HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES (@GraywolfPress), finalist for the National Book Award. Artist in Residence at @Penn. The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica.

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