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What comes to mind when we think about people with serious illnesses?
When men get to be creative empire-builders and women stewards of tradition, a chicken-egg problem emerges.
Cure, remission, and rehabilitation provide the happy ending and death the sad one.
Much like sexual-violence survivors, chronic-illness patients also have whisper networks.
Dietland’s willingness to engage with difficult, complex subjects—not least of which is women’s anger—feels deeply resonant right now.
After decades of erasure, the tide is turning.
In an interview, Clinton claimed to “like the #MeToo movement; it’s way overdue.” But when pressed on whether it had prompted him to rethink his own past behavior, he sputtered that of course he hadn’t, because he’d “felt terrible then.”
Female pain exists in a crossroad of stigma, disbelief, and misogyny.
I continue to be poor. I continue to be sick. The system keeps me that way.
There’s little room for a patient’s subjective experience in a medical system organized around quantifiable results.
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