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Since my childhood, I have always known ‘abdominal discomfort’: I often suffered belly aches, cramps and nausea. Since I also was quite ashamed of ‘bathroom related things’ and was quite emetophobic as well: a triple…

Hating my body is easy. Outward appearance is one thing: all the socio-cultural expectations we women deal with – the too-fat or flabby bits, the lack of a thigh gap, the faint lines and wrinkles…

Three little words that seem so innocuous and yet can be the straw that breaks the camels back on a bad day. When it comes to my mental health, where I’m at usually intersects with…

Coping with a debilitating chronic condition in academia April was Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month, which encouraged me to write those lines and share my journey in academia with a diagnosis of a chronic…

The dad is sad too. It is his baby too. It is his loss too.   It is true, the dad is sad too, when the #infertility treatment fails, the baby is #stillborn or the…