Body All the Way Down
All she knew was that she couldn’t let it happen again. All she knows is that a body is a dangerous place to be.
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Alexandra Middleton
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Alexandra Middleton is an essayist and medical anthropologist. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and Washington Square Review. Alexandra is an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in anthropology from Princeton. She is also the founder of WITHIN, a workshop series and global community that integrates somatic techniques for writing from, through, and into the body. She lives in Malmö, Sweden with her husband and daughter.
Terra Incognita
At 30, I am about to bisect the difference in age between my mother and mother’s mother when they gave birth.
A Love Language for the Menstruating Body: Chloe Caldwell’s The Red Zone
Above all, The Red Zone is a story of intimacy and love, in both substance and form.