chronic illness
False Choices: What Will It Take to Ignite a Feminist Healthcare Revolution?
Capitalism often tricks us into functioning from a place of scarcity, where longing for pleasure is the most we can aspire to. But what if we could tap into our desires in small ways every day?
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Ill Advised: Chronic Pain, “Beautiful Suffering,” and the Endurance of Victorian Stoicism
Our culture’s attitudes and beliefs about pain haven’t shifted much with respect to gender.
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Esmé Wang Finds Meaning in “The Collected Schizophrenias"
There are no easy solutions to the problems Esmé Weijun Wang poses, but she has provided us with the truth of her own story.
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Controlling Interest: “The Favourite’s” Sympathetic Take on Power and Pain
The queen’s outbursts reflect a larger fear of losing control over her body and her kingdom.
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Shining Light: Sini Anderson is Fighting for Late-Stage Lyme Patients
We’re too young to be this ill, and there are too many unanswered questions.
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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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The Endo Look: Body Positivity Needs to Tackle Chronic Illness
Like relationships we have with other people, the relationship we have with our bodies is not as polarized as all love or all hate.
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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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