Fat, thin, over-eating, under-eating. Lindsay Hunter’s relationship with food, weight, and body image has been consistently complicated.
Essays & Criticism
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Why the Most Beautiful Poems Defy Understanding
“In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”
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Innocence Abroad
“I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
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In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
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In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons
At a convention for stutterers, for the first time Rachel Hoge finds herself among many just like her.
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Cory Taylor Answers Your Questions About Dying
To help demystify dying, Cory Taylor answers questions about what it’s like to have a terminal illness.
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Femme (Fashion) Fatalities
“We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that.”
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My Mongolian Spot
An ephemeral birthmark is a rare gift, connecting me to generations spanning the centuries.
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The Boy With the Coin-Filled Cellophane Cigarette Wrapper, and Me
Meeting an apparently less fortunate child in her daughter’s kindergarten class transports Amber Leventry back to her own painful youth.