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    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #1

    / May 1, 2024

    If you read my last post, you know that about ten weeks ago my Bartholin cyst got infected and I had to have it lanced and drained at an urgent care center. It…

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  • essays,  health

    The Origin of Pain

    / April 15, 2024

    Or, The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me – Yet! Or, How the U.S. Health System Fucks You Up, Then Leaves You High and Dry Or, The Insidious Ways Doctors Weaponize Women’s…

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  • Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent.
    essays,  Guest Post

    Guest Post: Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent

    / February 13, 2024

    I’m thrilled to present a guest post from my friend Stephanie Parent – a fantastic writer, poet, and author of the novel THE BRIARS (which I cannot recommend enough). Today, she’s discussing the…

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  • film

    Favorite (Mostly Queer) Films of 2023

    / December 28, 2023

    While the horror pickings were, in my opinion, a bit slim this year, 2023 was a banner year for being queer in film. A year so good that Barbie and Bottoms didn’t even…

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  • health

    Pelvic Floor PT 101: What Is Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Like?

    / November 16, 2023

    I’ve mentioned in the past (here and here) that several years ago I was diagnosed with vulvodynia and vaginismus – two disorders that often go hand-in-hand. Vulvodynia makes the vagina extremely sensitive to…

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    On Britney’s Instagram, Selfies & the Mercurial Need to Be Perceived

    / November 6, 2023

    I spend a fair amount of time defending women’s selfies in my head. Whenever I see comments on Instagram photos accusing women of “just wanting attention” or being “attention whores” because of the…

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    toy reviews

    Review: WeVibe Melt, Compared to Womanizer Starlet & Dame Aer

    / November 5, 2023

    I’ve wanted a WeVibe Melt for years. I was dying to bring the (magically, orgasmically) unique sensations of a suction toy into partnered sex, but the other ones I have just don’t work…

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  • Still from the film CAM (2018).
    essays,  film

    Revisiting CAM Five Years Later

    / October 19, 2023

    I was just rewatching the brilliant film CAM (2018) yesterday – about a camgirl whose identity is stolen – and I was struck by how incredibly prescient the movie was when it first…

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  • essays,  film

    Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume

    / October 6, 2023

    “In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That quote is uttered by…

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  • Purple and pink flowers on vines.
    essays,  Personal

    Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You

    / September 26, 2023

    The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne (and her most…

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Hello! I'm Claire, a writer and poet living in Los Angeles, and this is L.A. Jayne - a girly repository for all of my thoughts. I write about sex and queerness in life, art, and culture, and also about navigating women's health (with chronic pain) in the hellscape that is the U.S. health care system. Come for the rants, stay for the heartfelt essays and practical advice. I also have killer taste in movies.

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