Sublime

she wanted to prepare us for inevitable consequences of human behavior.

During the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, she devised an ingenious, highly controlled pair of studies, in which some 40 remote healers across America were shown to improve the health of terminal AIDS patients,

In order to keep memories as a story of my self, it turns out I needed a sense of self.

memento vivi—

Stacey Milbern is a disability justice thought leader with twelve years of experience incubating leadership programs, managing services programs, and providing technical assistance to organizations wanting to increase their capacity around disability and diversity. She is a queer, mixed race, disabled woman of color and is passionate about advancin

In Gretchen Schmelzer’s excellent, gentle book, Journey Through Trauma,

‘Pioneering, Prodigious and Perspicacious: Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva’s Life and Contribution to Conceptualising Autism and Schizophrenia’, they nominated her 1920s papers as describing the first clinical account of autistic children and note (at last!) that she was ahead of her time in her focus on females, acknowledging the importance of her obser

It was impossible to tell if they were protecting her, changing her, or breaking her body down—just as I could not know whether some version of the anthropologist had indeed appeared to the surveyor near base camp after I had left for the lighthouse …