My name is Emily and I’m a writer in Chicago.
I edit a daily health care news publication, covering the pharmaceutical treatment of autoimmune diseases. When I’m not doing that, I’m doing this, and when I’m not doing this, I’m baking something sweet, polishing thrifted silver or watching F1.
What is Medusa’s Body?
Scorned, deadly, defeated yet eternally resonant. Medusa is the patron saint of this newsletter, which explores the corners of culture where the transgressive body is censored, where it bubbles up regardless.
Drawing on feminist and theoretical material, my aim with this newsletter is to develop a grotesque feminism that kills the false woman—that monumental creation of patriarchy—so that the live one can breathe again, can write herself and be heard.
“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.”
― Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
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