The Rules of the Asian Body in America

On my wife’s battle with cancer during a fraught time for healthcare and immigration

Matthew Salesses
Gay Mag
Published in
21 min readApr 3, 2018

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What are the rules we expect the body to follow?

When my wife, Cathreen, had our second child, on Thanksgiving Day 2016, we expected her body to return to its pre-pregnant state. For nearly the entire nine months, Cathreen had…

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Matthew Salesses
Gay Mag

Author of The Hundred-Year Flood & I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying. Forthcoming are The Murder of the Doppelganger & Own Story: Essays http://goo.gl/wHlt8s