“The Feeling Without A Name” Digital Comic

“The Feeling Without A Name” is a short nonfiction comic I created in 2022. It’s based on a poem I wrote in 2016, at the age of 21. When writing it, I was reeling from a metamorphosing that I experienced as a private sufferer of PGAD.

PGAD is a physical condition that affects people born with vaginas. Because the symptoms force the sufferer to feel unwanted genital arousal regardless of the situation, this condition affects mental health as well as physical health. Risks associated with PGAD include depression, anxiety, self harm, PTSD, gender dysphoria/dysmorphia, identity crisis, and, sometimes, suicide.

“The Feeling Without A Name” comic was made to provide visual aids to my poem, which admits a longing for liberation from my mutinous body.

Contains the following: medical sexual trauma, blood