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Survived Surgery Today
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Why I don’t suffocate my skin for the sake of acceptable femininity (ie, why I don’t wear antiperspirant)
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A little foreknowledge can save you a lot of heartache…
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When did I become old?
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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…