New in @therumpus.net is my piece about how chronic grief and disability warp marriage, create resentment about grieving differently, and fissure one's identity, but how we witness each other through our tiny everyday actions is what keeps us living and loving.

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“I don’t have to open my eyes to know I’m ugly and drooling and uncontainable.”

From Rumpus original fiction piece “Center of Gravity" by Kristina Kasparian.

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"Grief is hauling a suitcase with a broken wheel that is packed heavy with things you can’t leave behind. Being here won’t be a reset, but maybe it’ll jolt my senses awake." www.cntraveler.com/story/winter...

#condenast #grief #surrogacy #endometriosis #venice

"My tailbone and knees soon feel like they are outside my body. I wonder if you could ice grief the way you ice other wounds. It wouldn’t help for long, anyhow. It always hurts to thaw." | medium.com/modern-women...

“I disappointed a lot of people. They all told me I was too gifted to leave science and too young to give up on my uterus, but I swallowed hard and did it anyway. I never expected to be proud of being a quitter."- In today's @huffpost.com

“'During the pregnancy, you’ll be a spectator,' Margot warned us, drawing the delicate boundary between her pregnancy and our child. This is our first surrogacy journey, but we are Margot’s third parents." @kristinakaspa.bsky.social @electriclit.bsky.social electricliterature.com/i-am-the-oth...

Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate
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We don't talk much about #surrogacy, and, when we do, we talk about it as a last resort or a happy ending or a lifetime bond. But what happens when it's none of that?

Thank you @electriclit.bsky.social & @katiehrob.bsky.social for helping me tell this story.

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