Interlude: Queering and Grieving Short-Term Relationship Breakups

CARESCAPES #33

A meme by Margeaux featuring a photograph of a pink rose being hand up against a wall, with the shadow reflected. Text on top is a quote from Billy-Ray Belcourt’s book “This Wound is a World”: “the body is an assemblage, a mass of everyone who’s ever moved us, for better or for worse.” Hello dear ones, I’m currently working through the next section of my Queer Wounds series, and so I wanted to pause and share some other thoughts and feelings that have been coming up for me around the significance of our short-term relationships and the particular kind of pain they bring with them when they…

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