Image Credit: HELVETIQ on Flickr Amherst, Massachusetts, 1980: Reagan v. Carter I’m floating peacefully in a warm sea of amniotic fluid, when the voice of Ronald Reagan penetrates…
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1. “I have that Italian sleeping disease,” my mom says, liberating her Egg McMuffin from its wrapper. “The one that kills you because you never sleep again.” “You don’t have…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The CPR was pure mechanics, zero emotion, only adrenaline. Everyone was working in a frenzy—an ad lib ballet on a stage of blood. They were sticking needles, pumping blood, shouting…
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A few months ago, I went and watched Crazy Rich Asians. This happened in Philadelphia, during the middle of a cross-country move. Because of the theater’s abnormally strict views on…
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I don’t know much about my mother’s early twenties in Los Angeles. From photographs, I know she favored mauve nail polish and owned a leopard print one-piece. She’s told me…
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When Hamas returned the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years of captivity, they dressed him in a plaid shirt with navy shoulders, a navy-and-white collar and navy cuffs. Some…
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I wake up and can’t breathe. I heard steam helps so I run the shower very hot and hyperventilate in it. I freak out so loudly, it wakes my partner…
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Scientists say it might be far too late to reverse the damage we’ve done to this beautiful planet and today, a June day in New Jersey, the temperatures have soared…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Queer Excellence in Culture I’ve joked (half-joked, at least) often that “queers just do it better.” And there are certain social stereotypes that perpetuate this idea: think of the hit…
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Women have always needed the other person in order to “exist.” In real life, on the page, etc. Husbands, boys, fathers, men. He/him. The default higher power. 21 years later,…
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I have always found my history, myself, hard to read. Not that I haven’t tried: I’ve been psychoanalyzed for years and hospitalized for suicide attempts and lupus flares, sojourns meant…
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Image Credit: Alexander Cozens [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons There is a tipping point one crosses when the time at the bar ceases to be about getting tight and the mission…