In Sickness
Checkbox Colonization: The Erasure of Indigenous People In Chronic Illness
I am choosing to fight.
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Abby Norman on Endometriosis, Healthcare, and the Legacy of Female “Hysteria”
We want there to be these tidy endings, but that isn’t the reality of living with a chronic illness.
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Our Bodies, Our Hells: Why Isn’t Pain a Feminist Issue?
Just about everyone has a Tired Girl in their family, even if they don’t yet know it.
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No Rest for the (Already) Tired: Feminism Must Center Chronically Ill Women
To outsiders, and sometimes to fellow feminists, we’re simply invisible.
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The Mortal Ones: How Young Women Navigate Serious Illnesses
What comes to mind when we think about people with serious illnesses?
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Trauma Club: The Chronic Popularity of Illness Lit
Cure, remission, and rehabilitation provide the happy ending and death the sad one.
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Influx of Illness: Will Chronic-Illness Patients Get Their #MeToo Movement?
Much like sexual-violence survivors, chronic-illness patients also have whisper networks.
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Sick Women: How Women Took Control of Chronic Illness Narratives
After decades of erasure, the tide is turning.
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It’s All In Your Head: The Dangers of Disbelieving Female Pain
Female pain exists in a crossroad of stigma, disbelief, and misogyny.
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Performance of a Lifetime: On Invisible Illness, Gender, and Disbelief
There’s little room for a patient’s subjective experience in a medical system organized around quantifiable results.
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