Cataloguing Pain

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Cataloguing</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood sexuality and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity a state of chronic pain a sense of being caged the other is escaping pain emerging into its true self becoming free. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Cataloguing Pain</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> chronicles both trauma and hope through marriage illness and motherhood as the author learns how to live in a disabled body.</span></p>