Chelsea Cristene

The first rule: Unrequited love sucks. The second rule took regrettably longer for me to get a handle on: My unilateral crush was not this guy’s problem.

Thank you, Isolde, for making me pause, for encouraging me to ditch the pocket computer for conversation with someone new.

I realized that allergies, much like mental health, are largely misunderstood and often dismissed as trivial or exaggerated.

Wanting a child and wanting to experience childbirth are two very different things.

If Trump is right (there’s a first time for everything) and we need to state what a problem is before solving it, then let’s state it now. Radical white terrorism.

That’s the thing about perfectionism. When you chase something unattainable, you complete a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Chipping away at the problem of bisexual erasure starts with living truth out loud.

Illness is intensely personal, but it never affects the person diagnosed alone.

I reject the insistence that a woman can’t choose what makes her feel beautiful without regard for the judgement of others.