Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I learned so much from Adiba’s memoir, but mostly I learned the power of staying true to myself. Adiba Nelson, an Afro-Latina mama to 13-year-old Emory, is a retired burlesque performer, TEDx speaker, and disability rights advocate. Her debut memoir “Ain’t That a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! I was a child bride. It’s time to stop teaching young girls to stay sweet. Like the young girls in Netflix’s #2 trending true-crime docuseries, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obeyabout Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), I also grew up in a […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! The Club Members may include husbands, children, mothers, grandmothers, friends,and they may also include arms, legs, a torso, a foot.All members can be dismembered.All memories of the dismembermentmust be forgotten.To survive is to disremember.To never forget is not always an optionfor us souls who never forget.Instead we must […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My mother was a liberal feminist; my father was a religious zealot who left the family to live by the cult leader. Two months before I married, I had my first period. I still wore a training bra. I was 12 and had never kissed a boy, […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Menstruation My missing menses— Years… Friends we were. Years… she then disappeared. Years… Missing my menses— Link to original article
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Triplets Tamara MCPOEMWe named them: Fuchsia, Turquoise, and Black Ivory.The moment they were fertilized, before they had even become fetuses,everything about them had been genetically determined.How do you speak about losing three babies? Technically they weren’tbabies, but blobs—fertilized eggs that had turned from two cells, to fourcells, […]
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Liposuction:1. Stomach: lower, upper, waist, mons … (sp?)2. Back: flanks3. Legs: knees (around tops, sides), (calves?), inner thighs, outer thighs, love handles, front things, back thighs4. Neck: lower, around jawbones Nose job:1. Straighten nose: off-center2. Bump off top3. Smaller at bridge4. Smaller bulge5. Slightly upward6. Height and […]