Making the Tongue Dry is a collection of lyric essays that explore big topics in social science through an internationalist ecofeminist lens. These topics include chronic pain, intergenerational trauma, climate change, toxic masculinity, war, colonization, collective action, and the history of medicine and technology. Each of the essays in Making the Tongue Dry pushes the envelope on creative nonfiction form to allow the structure of each piece to contribute to its deeper meaning.