New book out Sept. 12! It’s a Midwest focused essay collection about wreckage and recovery and in general being a trash panda. I’m doing an Instagram live event on Aug 30, and live events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Muncie, New Lenox and Plainfield, IL, Columbus and more this fall! Pre-order at link in linktree :)
To have a radical analysis of pain means to understand and see where pain is created, who profits from it, and how deeply we rely on it as a major form of social control.
New essay on prison abolition from a chronic pain perspective at The Inquest: https://inquest.org/the-pain-of-punishment/
The Pain of Punishment | Sonya Huber | INQUEST
Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.
Some of my recent
#beading work. I put my Etsy link in my bio!
still think it's fucking WILD how many leftists are critical and disbelieve the gov't on everything, but totally buy the "covid is over" narrative
Wearing a mask when no one else is has upped my powers of not giving a fuck to the stratosphere
@MatthewBurnside7 I acknowledge you as our benevolent Midwestern overload
I’d like to tell my doctors that I’ll only rank my pain on a 1-10 scale if they ask me to also rank my medical anxiety 1-10
Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD
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