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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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Rumpus Original Fiction: Center of Gravity - The Rumpus
I’ve always been good at picking Ethan out of a crowd. When you love someone, you know where they are. I can taste the roar and purr of the ice under his blades. I imagine his parents watching him as ...
therumpus.net
January 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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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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January 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
"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
Wintering—and Grieving—in Venice
On a solo trip to the Italian city I once knew so well, I learned to accept my imperfect body.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"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...
Lessons From a Sleeping Forest
How to start a new year with continued grief
medium.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“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
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“'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...
I Am the “Other” in “Mother” - Electric Literature
By choosing surrogacy, I felt I outsourced the very essence of what makes a woman worthy
electricliterature.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate
electricliterature.com/i-am-the-other-in-mother
electricliterature.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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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I Am the “Other” in “Mother” - Electric Literature
By choosing surrogacy, I felt I outsourced the very essence of what makes a woman worthy
electricliterature.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM