Beauty The Bisto Legs Diaries #1: A Diagnosis, Not A Boast
One of our writers chronicles her boyfriend's unexpected and unwelcome diagnosis with a rare blood cancer.
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Food The Waiting Room: Flesh is Flesh
Kelly Davio's latest Waiting Room column for The Butter.
Health Disrupting Domesticity: Mental Illness & Love as a Fact
Ashley Ford and her partner Kelly on living with mental illness, and living with and loving someone affected by mental illness.
Health Color-Coding My Life: On Colors, Sight, and Darkness
As she recovers from a recent eye surgery, Jacqueline Steiger reflects on her relationship with colors and how a unique system helps her navigate the world.
Family Bloodier Than ‘Carrie’: Life with a Body, from Puberty to Childbirth
Ester Bloom on puberty, pregnancy, and how she came to terms with her body.
Family How to Cope with Your Sibling’s Mental Illness
Dena Afrasiabi writes for The Butter about what her brother's mental illness means for her.
Health The Waiting Room: Thanks a Lot, Miami Ink
The latest installment of Kelly Davio's 'Waiting Room' column for The Butter.
Health Things Women In Literature Have Died From
Everything.
Health Five Common Health Myths, Debunked And Then Gently Caressed
Take these health myths and give them to someone else. They're not wanted here.
Health The Other Abby
"What happens when you get too good at pretending that a sick person is well?" The author on her college friend Laura, and the role she wasn't ready for.
Health How To Be A Good Patient
Natalie Dougall presents a darkly funny account of how to be a good patient.
Family Snaggle Tooth
Lacy Warner on how her mother's health issues and her grandmother's death brought her "into the family tradition of daughters taking care of mothers."
Health The 1%
I am told that breast reconstructions like the one I tried to have fail about 1% of the time.
Feminism A Cup of Pennyroyal Tea
Kaye Wierzbicki on pennyroyal, an herb with abortifacient properties that captured the attention of 19th-century medical writers and literary authors alike.
Health Creation Myth: A Child Tries to Make Sense of Her Disability
Christine Kathleen McMahon shares how she tried to make sense of her disability as a child with little in the way of spiritual guidance.
