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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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In Sickness
Our commitment to highlighting and hiring people with chronic illnesses won’t end after this series does.
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The 12th Step: Leslie Jamison is Reinventing the Addiction Memoir
The Recovering works like an AA meeting where people are sharing their stories in the hopes that others will identify with them.
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Carrying the Future: There’s No Birth Control in Future Dystopias
What Happened To Monday is the latest example of this tired trope.
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Four Solaces: Reflections on Hope, Change, and Reproductive Justice
Finding sources of safety and joy are crucial for our communities and ourselves as we continue to survive and endure.
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Abuelita Knows Best: La Loba Loca offers an alternative to Westernized reproductive-health knowledge
La Loba Loca is dedicated to preserving and sharing “abuelita knowledge” as a political and social practice.
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Radical Black Care Is the Revolution
Black women’s salvation depends on collectively agreeing that we are human, that our care is essential to our freedom.
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Popaganda: Life in Late Capitalism
“Late capitalism” is a phrase that was first used by Marxist theorists at the turn of the 20th century. Over that time, it’s been used in different ways by different people, but right now, it’s popping up all over as a both funny and cutting term to describe the absurdity and lack of dignity that... Read more »
Hold the Line: What Do Pre-Existing Conditions and Disability Activism Mean Under Trump?
Many politicians see disability as a personal problem to be overcome only by those with diagnoses.
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