Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel by Emily Austin (2021)

Part Three: Ordinary TimeI find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people. I feel like I am falling through space and Eleanor just threw me a rose. It’s such a sweet, pointless gesture. It would be less devastating to fall through space alone, ( Read more... )

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown (2020)

The Broken Country: On Disability and DesireChronic pain makes you good at abandoning yourself. It teaches you that your body is a thing to ignore until it insists on being noticed-until your joints ache too badly to stand, until something buckles, until you fall and then you’re ( Read more... )

The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin (2021)

Part I
Chapter I. She suddenly looks worried. Is he attached, very strongly, to any family names ( Read more... )

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines (2019)

Healing and Activism Child sexual abuse is deeply traumatizing. It is also very early training in power-over, in victim and offender, in coercion, in silencing, and in adapting to violence and domination. This is training related to all systems of oppression and ( Read more... )

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines (2019)

Part 3: Transforming: I, You, and We
Chapter 6: The Arc of Transformation-Overview We hold the definition of transformation as: you or we have transformed when our actions align with our values and vision, even under the same old pressures. The same old pressures ( Read more... )

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan (2021)

Preface: The Mystery Illness
Up to a third of people attending any neurology clinic have a medical complaint that is likely to be psychosomatic in nature-meaning real physical symptoms that are disabling, but which are not due to disease and are understood to ( Read more... )

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (2021)

Chapter 3“Psychopathy is not ‘worse’ than Antisocial Personality Disorder-they’re different, and people unfortunately use the terms interchangeably. I think you, along with many others, are part of that subset that got diagnosed with ASPD when it should have been psychopathy, which I’m not convinced is a ‘ ( Read more... )

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton (2021)

Part One
Chapter 2
The sexiest, most exciting, romantic, explosive feeling in the world is a matter of a few centimetres of skin being stroked for the first time in a public place. The first confirmation of desire. The first indication of intimacy. You only get that feeling with a person once (39).

Chapter 4“I don ( Read more... )

Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn (2021)

IntroductionWhen clinical research exempts women from studies and trials on the grounds that female hormones fluctuate too much and upset the consistency of results, medical culture is reinforcing the centuries-old myth that women are too biologically erratic to be useful or valuable (7 ( Read more... )

Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn (2021)

Part Two: Late Nineteenth Century-1940s
9: Suffrage and Suppression In 1851, at the women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, the lecturer and abolitionist, stood up and declared, “I am a woman’s rights.” Truth’s speech, known as “Ain’t I a Woman?,” is one of history’s most important ( Read more... )