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Placebo

By Ezra Cohen November 1, 2022

In medicine, ritual can be as important as remedy.

Health

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Plan B

By Sasha Debevec-McKenney August 15, 2022

I always felt so cool buying it. Like as close to my womanhood as I could get.

GenderSex

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D&C

By Jaydra Johnson August 15, 2022

I didn’t choose to become an alcoholic. But I did have the choice to remain childless.

Bodies & Nature

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Pregnancy

By Sylvia K. Ilahuka August 15, 2022

In the Swahili language and culture, a woman is often identified by her children’s names.

GenderHealth

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Amniocentesis

By Jina Moore Ngarambe August 15, 2022

The odds themselves do not bother me, but I do not like the way they shape-shift.

Health

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IUD

By Alexis Cheung August 15, 2022

When mine expelled itself, I realized that bodily control is an illusion.

Health

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Postpartum

By Katherine Dykstra August 15, 2022

Her swollen breasts leaked colostrum through a printed green sheath dress that she had sewn herself.

Bodies & NatureHealth

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Uterus

By Krys Malcolm Belc August 15, 2022

Creation, reproduction, was supposed to be my inheritance, my potential; I, too, was once a daughter cell.

Bodies & NatureGender

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Unborn

By Nadia Owusu August 15, 2022

If a being hasn’t begun, then can it exist? If a being exists, then hasn’t it begun?

HealthPolitics

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Oxygen

By Maddie Norris July 19, 2022

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers may sound suspicious, or superstitious, but, for intensive wound healing, they work miracles. There’s just one problem.

Health

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Ketamine

By Bria Adimora Godley June 23, 2022

I’ve found that there is no return to a nondepressed self. There is only something new.

Health

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Naloxone

By Zachary Siegel May 9, 2022

The opioid antagonist counteracts overdoses within minutes. But, for it to work, people have to show up for one another.

Health

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Time

By Nitin K. Ahuja February 1, 2022

The “relative value units” of a clinical encounter

Health

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Humus

By Lulu Miller December 6, 2021

How exactly does this substance evade the unforgiving forces of decay? There's some dispute.

Dirt

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Worms

By Camille T. Dungy December 6, 2021

If I love the life that greets me at my eye level, I should love equally the workers who help make such life possible.

Dirt

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Sand

By Rachel Heng December 6, 2021

Although we are small now, we are still strong, a million tiny mountains in our own right.

Dirt

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Dirt

By Amy Leach December 6, 2021

The medium of surprise.

Dirt Bodies & Nature

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Grime

By Hisham Matar December 6, 2021

Dirt as disclosure.

Dirt

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Dust

By Maya C. Popa December 6, 2021

In this human life, we make a game of ridding ourselves of time’s evidence.

Dirt

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Soot

By Carey Baraka December 6, 2021

Will the mark grow and grow, until the entire ceiling is black?

Dirt