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Posts Tagged: scars

Body Inheritance

By Anna Held

June 23rd, 2020

I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.

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Tags: acne, alcohol, alcoholism, Anna Shults Held, basal cell carcinoma, beauty, beauty ideals, beauty standards, bodies, breast cancer, cancer, carcinoma, daughters, dentist, disease, drinking, family, female bodies, female body, generational trauma, genetic testing, genetics, grandmothers, Hurricane Katrina, illness, inheritance, inherited trauma, insomnia, intergenerational trauma, mastectomy, medical trauma, melanoma, mothers, mothers and daughters, New Orleans, recovery, rehab, scars, scoliosis, teeth, women's bodies

#SuicideGirls: Why I Teach Sylvia Plath

By Amber Nicole Brooks

July 6th, 2017

But let’s not forget: feminism is, at least in part, about choice, and portions of life are play, not politics. Play and relationships and creativity and whatever we want.

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Tags: Amber Nicole Brooks, c-section, Chuck Palahniuk, confessional, depression, femininity, feminism, feminist, Girls, James Woods, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jim Morrison, Kirsten Dunst, Lady Lazarus, Lena Dunham, Leslie Jamison, mothers, Pain, poetry, pregnancy, scars, Sofia Coppola, stitches, students, suicide, suicide attempt, Suicide Girls, SuicideGirls, Survivor, sylvia plath, teaching, The Doors, the empathy exams, ticks, Trent Reznor, Virgin Suicides

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