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Bat Mitzvah
A poem about connecting with my Ashkenazi heritage. Today I am a woman. Today I am a Jew. Today I have an ailment my ancestors all knew. For many generations, my Fathers’ guts have hurt. My Mother...
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The War of Resistance
“Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” In George Orwell’s 1984, the past is altered, but war is constant; the names of the combatants are changed retroactively, but combat is continuous....
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What Is Happening To My Creativity?
When I was younger, art skills were meaningful and important. Filmmaking was too expensive for any but the elite; there was more demand than supply of “media.” Animation was drawn by hand, every...
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My T-Shirt Got Auto-Deplatformed
I launched an older T-shit design on TeeSpring over the weekend: Minutes after I shared it on social media, it disappeared, with no option for me to re-launch. So today (Monday) I emailed TeeSpring,...
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Musical Memory
I have an excellent musical memory. I forget everything else, but music stays. Music plays in my head 24/7, and has my whole life. I can remember entire symphonies my sister would spin on our record...
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Back on ‘Zac
Why I am returning to my regular dose of Prozac after 2 years of tapering off. Self Portrait, February 2025 A few days ago, at a candy store in another town, I asked if I could buy some empty chocolate...
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Why can’t I Be Sick Like A Normal Person?
In March 2023 I got COVID which kept me in bed for 6 weeks. The following month it kept me in bed every other day. After that I got back to normal, except my body temperature remained a...
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Bronchiectasis
For my 57th birthday I got a diagnosis of Bronchiectasis, a chronic incurable lung condition often associated with Crohn’s disease. In addition to coughing for the rest of my life and being extremely...
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Autoimmune Disease
1. Healthy Immune System 2. Autoimmune Disease The post Autoimmune Disease appeared first on Nina Paley.
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Sermon by a Part-Time Atheist
Nature is cruel; see illness and death, see animals eating each other. See extinctions and starvation and catastrophe, White Nose Syndrome in bats, Alzheimer’s in humans. By Nature, I mean God. God is...
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