Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Cooper Jones)

Listen now (54 mins) | “That's just like the human struggle, is how is it that our interiority and the way that we're perceived externally, how do we live with that? How does it act?"

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Elise Loehnen
Oct 26, 2023
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Chloé Cooper Jones is the author of the truly stunning memoir Easy Beauty, which unsurprisingly, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chloé was born with sacral agenesis, a rare congenital condition that impacts her gait and her stature, and makes it at times painful to …

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