in one's skin

There is no blueprint for how to exist in one’s skin post-loss.

Real life is composed of not just big events, after all, but also daily ceremony, and whatever the distance between our fantasy selves and actual selves, the confidence one wants to feel in one’s skin — in one’s clothes — is real and universal.

One’s “white voice,” he explains, is an extension of “one feeling at ease and comfortable in one’s skin. One feeling as if they are part of the majority. It is something that is the opportunity mostly afforded in this country to white people.”

Scabies is a severely itchy and contagious condition caused by a mite that burrows in one’s skin.

Some were sliced like a gash in one’s skin, revealing a pink rubbery interior.