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"Savor every day" and the myth of survivorship
When does the part where people with cancer become "grateful for everything" start?
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Kaya Oakes
FrEe BoOkS
I regret to inform you that I have to promote my book again
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Kaya Oakes
What is a breast worth?
Olivia Munn, cancer, capitalism, and the danger of having low-value boobs
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Kaya Oakes

February 2024

The last time I went to church
No, this isn't about "deconstruction," but it is about failing to find a church
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Kaya Oakes
Did it again and again and again and again and again and again
Hey I wrote another book and you can preorder it
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Kaya Oakes

January 2024

Disclosure, or, you don’t owe anyone your trauma
In June of last year, I had a four hour train ride from Seattle to Portland early in the morning. Looking for things to listen to, the podcast Scamanda…
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Kaya Oakes
We are not our chests
Some notes on what it really means to be gender affirming
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Kaya Oakes
A Plastic Paddy
Some notes on longing for places we’ll probably never go
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Kaya Oakes

November 2023

On suffering
We're going to talk about excrement and also about religion
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Kaya Oakes

September 2023

Slaying the Minotaur
notes from a diagnosis
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Kaya Oakes

August 2023

A prophet is never welcome
Sinéad O'Connor gave Gen X Catholic girls a model for what it means to stop being good and start asking for justice
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Kaya Oakes

June 2023

What Beef and Thomas Kyd have in common
Revenge fantasies offer us an outlet for our very human desire to get even
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Kaya Oakes
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