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Jennifer @fractiouswriter ?

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  • Jennifer commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist Reader   6 months, 1 week ago · View

    I wrote about my new medical diagnosis: lipidema. This post is about body image, child abuse, self fat-shaming, and health. Serious trigger warnings.

    What The Hell Do I Look Like? What the Hell is Inside Me?

  • Jennifer commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist Reader   6 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    I wrote about my rape this weekend:

    Let’s Talk Abut Rape

  • Jennifer commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist Reader   7 months ago · View

    My series on my friend Leigh, who died in 1995 of a heroin overdose, continues as we approach the anniversary of her death at the end of this week. This looks like it’s going to be an 8-part series, and here are posts 5-7: Part V Part VI Part VII Content note/trigger warning: bulimia, drug use, references to [...]

  • Jennifer commented on the blog post Weekly Feminist Reader   7 months, 1 week ago · View

    I’ve been writing a series about my college roommate who died in 1995. We’re approaching the anniversary of her death and I decided to spend the month writing about the brief time that I knew her, as well as the other people we knew at that time. Pretty serious Content Notes apply for bulimia, drug [...]

  • Deep in my youth—and in college, in the ‘90s, during the Grunge era—I was an Oshkosk B’Gosh girl. This is because, when I was 9, I thought I was Tom Sawyer. I wasn’t Huck Finn because I had people I lived with who basically took care of me, but I was still an orphan in [...]

  • “You have an opinion on everything. You have something to say about everything,” an old roommate, who I’ll call Deadhead, said to me as I stood over where he sat on the couch, with my  house-keys in my hand and my arm raised. “You hate men, don’t you? You hate me, don’t you? You want [...]

  • Jennifer became a registered member   7 months, 3 weeks ago · View

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