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My Wife’s Missed Miscarriage Reiterated That Reproductive Rights Are LGBTQ+ Rights

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By Jackie Domenus
| Autostraddle Verified
The ultrasound mouse’s clicking is seared into my brain. Our midwife with one hand pressing the transducer into my wife’s stomach, the other hand rolling a finger over the ball in the center of the machine’s keyboard and pressing down, clicking over and over on what was supposed to be our eventual baby’s heartbeat. We had heard it — that magical thump-thump — at each check-up since six weeks. But now, at our ten-week check-up, silence, apart from the midwife’s hollow clicking.
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I Had Life-Changing Surgery The Same Week A Nonbinary Teen Died. It Made Me Face A Sinister Truth.

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By Jackie Domenus
| Aol Verified
In February 2024, I had top surgery — a form of gender-affirming care that was recently labeled “mutilation” by the president of the United States in one of the many heinous executive orders he issued since his inauguration. A year ago, in the post-anesthesia care unit of a New Jersey hospital, a nurse clacked at a keyboard while I opened and closed my eyes slowly, not yet conscious enough to remember someone had just operated on my chest.
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Striking a Balance: The Child Narrator in Memoir and Personal Essays

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By Jackie Domenus
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
You’d be hard-pressed to find a book-length work of memoir or personal essays in which the author doesn’t revisit their childhood. It’s like the therapy cliché where you spew out a litany of personal problems and troubled relationships in your adult life, only for the therapist to say “tell me about your childhood.” It’s basic psychology: if we want to understand ourselves better, we must return to our beginnings. This feels especially true for queer and trans folks writing creative nonfiction.
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