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Stress Positions

Top surgery, public pools, ballet classes, and why 2022 feels like the worst possible moment to come back to my body.

Like “Jaws,” but for teenage boys with rage issues. Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

Here is my body in July, early afternoon, in a car headed from New York to Virginia: I am lying on my side in the half-reclined passenger seat, arms crossed over my chest. My right leg is bent…