Molly Pearson

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Molly M. Pearson is a writer, educator, and organizer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work centers sex, identity, aging, illness, community, and the risks we take to survive and make life worth living. Her writing can be found at The New Territory, Catapult, TheBody, Foglifter, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. She is a current MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction Writing at WashU, a co-curator of Changeling, a local cross-genre queer reading series, and a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD) collective, an interdisciplinary community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis. She implores us all to listen to our elders.