Sick Woman Theory

stop everything that you're doing and read this masterpiece of an article like now. and don't forget to reach out to those you might know who are struggling with chronic illnesses, mental disorders or disability

“How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed?”

““Sickness” as we speak of it today is a capitalist construct, as is its perceived binary opposite, “wellness.” The “well” person is the person well enough to go to work. The “sick” person is the one who can't. What is so destructive about conceiving of wellness as the default, as the standard mode of existence, is that it invents illness as temporary. When being sick is an abhorrence to the norm, it allows us to conceive of care and support in the same way.”

“The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other's vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an
interdependent sociality, a politics of care.”

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