Cancer may have claimed Steve Bean Levy’s nose, but not his sense of humor.
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Breast Implants, Beyond Real and Fake
Nell Boeschenstein reflects on the culturally fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction.
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Towards Chinatown
Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
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Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
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True Roots
One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
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Anaphylaxis of the Mind
Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
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The Strongest Woman in the Room
A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
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This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’
This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.
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‘I was pain incarnate.’
As she lives with terminal cancer, Teva Harrison reflects on how fentanyl is helping her make the most of the time she has left.
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A Few Words about Fake Breasts
Nell Boeschenstein, writing almost seven years after her prophylactic mastectomy, examines how breasts — whether real or fake, attached to or removed from their original owner — carry an overabundance of personal and cultural meaning.
