Ali Walensky
We live with our bodies all our lives, and only we know what certain sensations feel like. No one knows our own bodies better than we do. Here’s what I learned about mine as I battled a serious illness.
Elizabeth S. Bennett
New job, new city, new baby, new role as a rabbi’s wife. But the diagnosis outdid the rest.
Ali Walensky
She chose "kink" sex, for pain she herself could control.
Alicia Ostriker
Looking back at the surgery decades later, the noted poet confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.