Tag: Women’s Issues
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Alternative Treatments I’m Considering for my Migraines
Unfortunately, the usual treatments for migraines haven’t been wicked successful for me recently. I’ve tried Triptans and Beta Blockers and Ubrelvy, monthly CGRP injections, infusions, even Botox, with little effect. So, I’ve decided to look into alternatives. Below is a list of some of the treatments I’m considering.
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Brazil 2025
Brazil- A country of geographic and cultural contradictions, where monkeys play in an urban jungle, the people are as colorful as the flowers.
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Pride at the Beach
When I think of Pride, it’s not fit as hell gay men shirtless and decked in feathers dancing on a Chase bank float. It’s women running into the ocean shrieking with girlish laughter. It’s a little girl and her mothers at the beach building a drip castle. It’s kissing my love in the waves, tasting…
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Racing Down that Road
I used to think life was a freeway. A long, open expanse of asphalt to be hurled over. No speed limit, like the autobahns in Germany where you can push your engine as hard as you want. A flat space to accelerate faster and faster over until the speedometer inches beyond the illuminated dashes.
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A Body in Pain is a Wild Thing
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A Visit From an Old Friend
Having multiple chronic illnesses is like having friends who live out of town that like to pop by unannounced. Sometimes it will be a long while between visits. So long in fact you almost kind of forget they exist. And then one day, BAM, there they are, standing at your front door with a duffle…
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My First Novel!
My first novel, Emma by the Sea, will be published by Bold Strokes Books May 2025! It is currently available for pre-order at your local indie bookstore (and Amazon and Target) and will be released to the wider world on 5/13. You can buy an early release E-book directly on the BSB website. Here’s the…
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The casual homophobia of my period tracking app
I have PCOS, which means my cycles are incredibly irregular. I’ve gone years without a period and months when I’ve had 2 in 4 weeks. As you might assume, this makes figuring out when I’m going to have my period a bit difficult. I started tracking my cycles last year when I got off birth…
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Lauren, 1st and 8th
Somewhere out in the cosmos There’s a map of New York And on certain street corners Scrawled under the bold type Of green and white street signs Are the names of the women I’ve kissed there The cartography of my life left in spit and lipstick and the echos of heckles On those sidewalks Just like the…
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The Body in Pain is a Wild Thing
When I was 13, I began a war against my body. It decided to grow taller and wider and rounder than any of the other kids in my class. Like many of this age, I hated even the idea of standing out. I thought: if I couldn’t be shorter, maybe I could collapse into myself…
Sarah Levine 