healthcare

How do I use my own privilege? Do I eliminate obstacles for others or do I take the easier route of deferring to the status quo?

The healthcare industry is in desperate need of institutional change if it truly aims to combat sexual misconduct.

While money does not prevent depression, it does facilitate the potential for happiness, or at the very least more management of unhappiness.

The grief, pain, and misery of an illness lying in wait unsettles me — and yet, I must fight to sustain a life caught between existence and incessant stillness.

I first went on disability when I lived in Rochester, New York.

I first went on disability when I lived in Rochester, New York.

It’s supposed to imply that I can do a lot of stuff even while I’m sick, but what it actually means is “not dying yet.” Because that is the actual definition of functioning: existing. Breathing in and out, eating, talking, and — especially if you live in America — generating some form of income.

When I think sexy, the first thing that comes to mind is acting with abandon and being lost in the trance of feeling and response. My body might want that rapture, but it has to crawl through its own junkyard to get there.