Chelsea Cristene

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

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

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

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

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

When men’s dating preferences were observed, the age of women they expressed interest in never (never!) deviated from the early 20s.

Knowing a few compulsive liars over the course of my life has taught me some things. Living during Trump’s presidency has reinforced them.

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.

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.