Date of Award
5-28-2025
Document Type
Poem
Abstract
My manuscript of poems, called "Bellyache," speaks to my experience with endometriosis and how it intersects with both womanhood, and the pain we inherit from our ancestors that becomes stored in our bodies over time. This project gave me the permission to write poems that grapple with both escaping and recreating what it’s like to be a woman inside the medical system which continues to equate pain with hysteria, and inside a world that either says you’re sick, or you aren’t.
Recommended Citation
Braylovskiy, Valerie, "Bellyache" (2025). Canterbury Scholars. 18.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/canterbury/18
Included in
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