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The Body That Understands What Fullness Is
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The Body That Understands What Fullness Is

Roxane Gay on getting weight reduction surgery
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Roxane Gay
Apr 24, 2018
The Body That Learned What Love Is
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The Body That Learned What Love Is

Writer and translator Randa Jarrar on survival and miracles
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Randa Jarrar
Apr 3, 2018
The Body That’s Afraid of What It Would Do with a Gun
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The Body That’s Afraid of What It Would Do with a Gun

Professor Kiese Laymon on history, race, and guns in America
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Kiese Laymon
Apr 3, 2018
The Body That Bleeds
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The Body That Bleeds

Comedian Samantha Irby on the violent ways her period takes over her life
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Samantha Irby
Apr 10, 2018
The Body Broken by Alcohol
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The Body Broken by Alcohol

Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar on day-drinking, shattered bones, and overcoming addiction
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Kaveh Akbar
Apr 10, 2018
The Body of My Father
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The Body of My Father

Poet Kima Jones celebrates the familial bonds of love, grief, and legacy
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Kima Jones
Apr 24, 2018
The Body That’s Too Asian and Too Sick for America
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The Body That’s Too Asian and Too Sick for America

Author Matthew Salesses on his Korean wife’s battle with cancer during a fraught time for healthcare and immigration
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Matthew Salesses
Apr 3, 2018
The Body That Ages
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The Body That Ages

Academic and writer Chelsea G. Summers on expensive skincare and a changing face
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chelsea g. summers
Apr 10, 2018
The Body That Says ‘I Am Here’
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The Body That Says ‘I Am Here’

National Book Award Finalist Carmen Machado defines all the ways in which her body is unruly
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Carmen Maria Machado
Apr 10, 2018
The Body That Barfs
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The Body That Barfs

Novelist and and professor Jennine Capó Crucet recounts the guttural extremes of her body’s defense mechanisms
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Jennine Capó Crucet
Apr 17, 2018
The Body’s Evolving Desire
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The Body’s Evolving Desire

Artist and poet Larissa Pham on sex, metamorphosis, and the benefit to burning
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Larissa Pham
Apr 24, 2018
The Body on the Edge of Womanhood and Queerness
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The Body on the Edge of Womanhood and Queerness

On learning to accept love after losing it
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Your Fat Friend
Apr 24, 2018
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