“What the disease taught me about language, inheritance and pain.”
pain
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‘What’s Your Pain Right Now?’ Sickle Cell, Loss, and Survival in America
“‘What’s your pain right now?’ Sickle cell, loss, and survival in America.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Elizabeth Kolbert, Joshua Hammer, Tan Tuck Ming, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
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The Medical Power of Hypnosis
Does hypnosis really work? For BBC Future, Martha Henriques falls down a rabbit hole and explores hypnosis as a treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD, and other conditions. For many people, it’s a regular occurrence to get lost in a good book, or become so absorbed in a film (perhaps even a Harry Potter film) it […]
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Slow Death and Labored Breath: Listening To, Listening Through Inheritance
“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Regarding the Pain of Oprah
She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Inking Against Invisibility
In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
Life After Pain
One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.
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Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A personal essay about how a BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.