We Are More: Show Me Your Teeth
Despite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
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Posts Tagged: teeth
Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Teeth: An Oral History
Few people can tell that my smile is literally fake.
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Inauguration Day Root Canal
On Inauguration Day, I can’t feel my mouth.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Sok
Monica Sok discusses her award-winning poetry chapbook Year Zero, her interest in Southeast Asian history, and living in isolation.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
...moreIn the US, Not Much Wisdom About Teeth
As a grad student without dental insurance, Jess Stoner received “an almost-affordable root canal from student dentists” in a room full of twenty other uninsured patients. Listening to the whimpers of pained strangers, I learned an incredibly important lesson I have never forgotten: We’re all fucked. Read her essay on the shocking state of dental care […]
...moreNot Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination
I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from Los Algodones, Mexico, where a new tooth costs $1,000. If that doesn’t make you want to read the rest of Safy-Hallan Farah’s dental-tourism story, you […]
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