A Story Most Queer

A podcast featuring weekly narratives by and about queer people

A Story Most Queer

S2 E9: The Other Women by Emily Shapiro

March 24, 2020

A woman is haunted by her body image—or the image she has of her skinnier body. Everywhere she goes she is followed by this double. Work, gym classes, and doctors appointments, her thinner self misses none of it. All the while her wife is expressing a desire to start a family. As the prospect of becoming pregnant becomes more real, will this second body disappear? 

 

CW: body dysmorphia, diet talk

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Today’s story is The Other Women by Emily Shapiro

Twitter and Instagram: @emilymarthashapiro

 

This story is read by Leah Cornish

Twitter and Instagram: @leah617

 

This episode was edited by Leah Cornish

 

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