Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Illness Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine | 
I‘ve been in a flare-up for days, and so far this book is making me feel less alone.
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I‘ve been in a flare-up for days, and so far this book is making me feel less alone.
“Language is a tricky thing, especially when we try to capture what‘s happening in our bodies and our culture. Words like ‘health,‘ ‘healthy,‘ ‘sick,‘ ‘illness,‘ and ‘disability‘ are always relative and loaded, rarely static, and often problematic. Words like ‘women,‘ too. Our definitions are constantly in flux—as are, for instance, the laws that govern our rights. Whose bodies count? Whose bodies do we systematically inconvenience or overlook?”
#currentlyreading Just starting chapter 3. Important book that includes a diverse range of experiences but they all center on young women with health issues.
pickThe most intersectional book I‘ve ever read. The only thing I can say is that the title speaks for itself and this should be required reading for everyone. (Perhaps it needed more summation or conclusion to tie it all together at the end. Or not, bc maybe we deserve to finish this and sit there with our thoughts.)
