Chelsea Cristene

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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