Life behind bars bike shirt

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You deal with so much trauma and grief in your book. Is there any aspect of telling those stories that feels healing, or do you feel like it causes you to relive difficult chapters in a not-so-pleasant way?

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Well, I have four other books in the Life behind bars bike shirt and I will buy this works right now, and one is literally called Rape Girl. That has been the hardest thing I’ve ever worked on. Um, and I do feel like I can sort of like put away like, relationships with exes; like, the Betty Draper essay helped me feel like I closed a really bad chapter in my life, which was my year of grappling with dating really shitty men. And I think that coming to the end of that year, and coming to the end of that essay, like, it definitely felt like I was putting a book away. The rape work is different, primarily because… I’m never going to be someone who wasn’t raped, you know what I mean? The PTSD from that, it follows you, even though I’m in a very different emotional space than I was, you know, for many years after. I like the feeling of making sort of object that almost crystallizes or calcifies a certain emotion or experience, and becomes sort of like tangible. I think that has been important in terms of feeling more in control of my life and my history. But I think emotional healing is something that is continuous, and might last forever. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I think that there were times when I was displacing that trauma, and imagining that as healing; I think understanding that that trauma’s going to be with me, and I need to learn to have some sort of authority over it, has been more important to me than any idea of closure.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.