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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva
5.0
This book is devastating and excellent. A series of essays that talk through disability, queerness, activism, kink, and more. Johanna Hedva has a lot to say, and they say it well.
I read a post once about hope, how she isn't palatable or small. Hope is down in the muck, bruised, bleeding, and raising herself up after getting beat down once again. This books feels that way.
"What happens if we don't forfeit but still get in the ring? What happens if we know we're going to lose the fight but we do not give up? Our strategy will change."
HOW TO TELL WHEN WE WILL DIE is blunt and honest, taking up space, claiming what it needs. It is compassion and mutual care, tearing down socially acceptable walls that keep people apart.
I read a post once about hope, how she isn't palatable or small. Hope is down in the muck, bruised, bleeding, and raising herself up after getting beat down once again. This books feels that way.
"What happens if we don't forfeit but still get in the ring? What happens if we know we're going to lose the fight but we do not give up? Our strategy will change."
HOW TO TELL WHEN WE WILL DIE is blunt and honest, taking up space, claiming what it needs. It is compassion and mutual care, tearing down socially acceptable walls that keep people apart.