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Survived Surgery Today
Wisdom teeth have successfully been removed.
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Why I don’t suffocate my skin for the sake of acceptable femininity (ie, why I don’t wear antiperspirant)
I don’t wear antiperspirant. I haven’t for years — not since I was young and impressionable and believed capitalist patriarchy when they said so long as I sweat at ALL I was gross and unfeminine and boys would never want to kiss me.
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A little foreknowledge can save you a lot of heartache…
I’d rather know as early as possible someone’s political or religious beliefs — because they could negatively affect my life.
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When did I become old?
I’m sitting at home eating dinner at a quarter to 11pm (which actually seems a reasonable time to eat dinner during summer; the sun just set) and wanting to go to the bar. Instead I’m eating salad. Salad of mixed baby greens and spinach with some bell peppers, and some of my Four Thieves’ Vinegar…
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Eating Disorders and Losing Weight (trigger warning: disordered eating, mental health issues, fatphobia)
I suppose I’m continuing in a somewhat depressive vein, here, but it needs to be said. I’m a fat-positive activist, and I believe in HAES — Health At Every Size. Fat people are still people and should be treated like human beings, instead of like second class citizens or monsters who live in catacombs below…
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Depression (trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, ableism)
There’s something quite insidious about depression. It prevents me from doing anything I want to quite often. In fact, it is only by forcing myself quite strenuously that I am writing this at all, and the fact that I misspelled strenuously and had to use the spell-check in Firefox to fix it made me almost…
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Writer Wednesday: The Writer’s Diet
First, please note that when I say “diet” I do not mean “calorie counting fascism designed to make you feel terrible about yourself and trigger all your eating disorders”. I mean, quite specifically, all the food that one ingests — one’s diet. Next, I do not speak for all writers here. I am only talking…
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Cloaking myself in portability and the Mystery of Moving
I am currently moving, and the entire process — while exhausting — is definitely one of Life’s Mysteries. The definition of Mystery: an event that only those who have been initiated into it understand fully; it’s generally difficult if not impossible to describe the Mystery, which is why it’s a Mystery. There are various Mysteries…