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Category Archives: Personal
So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Adieu, a.k.a. The Transfer from QueerieBradshaw.com to LaurenMarieFleming.com
My first blog post on here was in 2008, and it was my mother’s recipe for mushroom rice. Yeaup, this used to be a food blog called West Coast Winos. Then I got asked to write a sex blog for Curve … Continue reading
Become a Citizen of Hope
On October 2, 2012, a team of surgeons at City of Hope medical center sliced open my brother and saw a body wracked with cancer. Nevertheless, they kept cutting, determined to remove what they could of this invasive leech eating him … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Headline, Off Our Chests, Organizations/Companies, Personal, Stuff We Love
Tagged Andrew, cancer, Family, featured, feelings, fuck cancer, grief, hope, personal, personal story
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Depression, Robin Williams, and Me
Robin Williams killed himself today and my heart keeps breaking over and over again, not for the man I never met, but for the struggle I know too well. My depression hit me like a brick wall around the same … Continue reading
Posted in Confessions, Featured, Personal
Tagged depression, grief, personal, Robin Williams, suicide
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Introducing Dear Friend, Intimate Letters Between You and Me
With a million different blogs and even more social media sites, I feel like I’m often shouting into a crowded room, getting only echoes and whispers back. I miss intimacy in my encounters. I miss connecting with you all. For … Continue reading
Alaskan Rejuvenation, a.k.a. All the Wonderfulness I Accomplished in the Wilderness
Everyone in Alaska has a plane, at least that’s what it feels like as the skies fill up with single-engine floaters every weekend, leaving from watery runways in town and landing in lakes far from here, places without roads or … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Featured, Headline, My Writing Elsewhere, Personal, Sinful Misadventures, Travel
Tagged Adventure, Alaska, rejuvenation, writing, writing retreat
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May Is National Masturbation Month and I Can’t Celebrate, But You Can For Me
Oh that little thing right there? That’s nothing, just a giant ball of something hanging out in my uterus. The doctors found it by sticking a tube into my cervix and filling my uterus up with fluid, then shoving a … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Personal, Sex, Sex Toys and Porn, Stuff We Love
Tagged hospital, masturbate, masturbation, medical, sex toys
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Happy Anniversary, Baby, Let’s Go to the Emergency Room, a.k.a. Love in the Time of Maladies
This afternoon, doctors are going to stick a straw into my cervix, fill my uterus up with water and try to see if they can figure out why my lower abdomen has been hurting for so long. This is not how I planned on … Continue reading
Posted in Headline, Personal, Relationships
Tagged Alex, Andrew, anniversary, fear, feelings, hospitals, illness, love, medical, personal, personal story, relationships
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Belly Aches, a.k.a. Fat-Shaming Has Made Me Afraid to Go to The Doctor
There is a sharp pain in my right side and I refuse to go to the doctor about it. Here is why: When I was 7, I went to my first fat doctor. I remember sitting there naked with my … Continue reading
Posted in Body Positivity, Confessions, Essays, Gluttony, Headline, Health, Personal
Tagged #NotYourGoodFatty, body image, cancer, doctors, fat, fat bodies, fat health, fear, feelings, food, grief, HAES, health, health at every size, personal, personal story, plus-size
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Why I Spent My Saturday of Catalyst Con Crying Instead of Having Sex, a.k.a. Grief Hits at the Worst Times
For the most part, I love speaking at conferences. For the most part, I love being the person who encourages people to dig deep and share their Truths, to talk about the difficult – from money to grief to racism … Continue reading
Posted in Confessions, Essays, Featured, Headline, Off Our Chests, Personal, Queerie Bradshaw, Uncategorized
Tagged Catalyst Con, condrop, conference, conferences, depression, grief, personal, personal story
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Question of the Day: How often do you have sex? #SexQOTD
Leading up to my keynote panel at Catalyst Con East – where I will be talking about sparking conversations in sexuality – I’m going to try to start some sex conversations here on the blog and on Twitter. To learn … Continue reading
Posted in #SexQOTD, Confessions, Conversation Starters, Personal, Sex
Tagged #SexQOTD, Sex
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