Sublime

the system as a whole remains ill-equipped to deal with chronic illness. It’s technologically proficient but emotionally deficient, much better at treating acute problems than chronic ones: for every instance of expert treatment, skilled surgery, or innovative problem-solving, there are countless cases of substandard care, overlooked diagnoses,

In total, more than 15 million people were identified as candidates for sterilization.

onerous

Sonya envisions radical healing divorced from the ableist, capitalist White supremacy of traditional “self-help.

Just one more supplement. One more somatic experiencing session. One more colon cleanse. One more reiki appointment. One more meeting with an immunologist who is the only person recommended to treat your condition but doesn’t take insurance and orders hundreds of dollars of blood tests.

this book is about living with, rather than eradicating or defeating, a disease: a story about letting go of the American ethos of overcoming and about confronting our mutual interdependence.

three years before my birth. In the United States, African Americans are 25 percent more likely to die of cancer than Whites. My father survived prostate cancer, which kills twice as many Black men as it does White men. Breast cancer disproportionately kills Black women.

When Crystal was sixteen, she stopped going to high school. At seventeen, she was examined by a clinical psychologist, who diagnosed her with, among other things, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, reactive attachment disorder, and borderline intellectual functioning. When she turned eighteen, she aged out of foster care. By that