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| 5b97562 | Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle. | body-dysmorphic-disorder anorexia-nervosa dysphoria | Margaret Atwood | |
| 0a18081 | It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature. | self-awareness dysphoria gender-identity living-the-moment maggie-nelson the-argonauts transgender carpe-diem gender | Denise Riley |