Chelsea Cristene

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.

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

I see no such kerfuffle over straight men at gay bars, so it appears that this brand of exclusivity is Dicks Only.

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.

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

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

Anyone who has been a victim of abuse will tell you that the burden of emotional labor is enormous, and that it’s amplified by the pressure to keep quiet.

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.