Writing in the Midst of Crisis
During these last two months I’ve experienced genuine suffering, crisis and pain. Doesn’t that make my fear of writing rejection seem a bit small?
Category: disability
Do I Have a Superpower? What Illness Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashina. It is a fantastic collection of essays that thinks through the possibilities of a political future where disability justice is a part of …
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Interview on Race and the Gender Pain Gap
As many of you know, I’ve been writing and speaking about racism and sexism within the medical industrial complex for the last few years. It is an issue that has impacted me personally, as well as black women like Beyonce …