Chaya is a bisexual New Englander with a one-eyed, polydactyl familiar. She writes about chronic illness, access, and is nosy about everything else. Follow her on Twitter.
There’s a staunch Puritanical and traditionalist bent that persists in New England, now resulting less in atrocities like the perennially invoked Salem Witch Trials and more in people being doggedly…
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