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some of my favourite novels/poetry collections/essays/etc that touch on themes of illness & disability. all written by disabled, d/deaf & chronically ill people. many are free to borrow on archive.org or a quick google away

When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy 

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso 

Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz 

With Wings: An Anthology Of Literature By And About Women With Disabilities edited by Marsha Saxton 

The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus 

Carnal Acts by Nancy Mairs 

A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt 

I Watched You Disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer by Nancy Mairs

Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber

The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown

Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva

The Undying by Anne Boyer

Beauty is a Verb: the New Poetry of Disability edited by Jennifer Bartlett 

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse

If I Could Sleep Deeply Enough: Poems by Vassar Miller

Love/Iraq by Sheila Black

Blissful Times by Sandrah Alland

Veil & Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth

Common Cyborg by Jillian Weise

Teratology: Poems by Susannah Nevison

Movements of the Uncontrollable Body by Bronwyn Valentine

Such Perfection by Chloé Cooper Jones

Hoist the Larger Grief Along by Aditi Nagrath

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo

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Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park, 1979 

Photographer: Joel Bernstein

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minors DNI on sugar mountain.

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hope you’re doing well

call me bucket on rope being lowered to gather water for the village the way i’m doing well

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Mike Faist as Art Donaldson in Challengers // 2023

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— BERTOLT BRECHT, trans. John Willett.

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fawzul himaya hareed (@milodrama) reimagining shame, on writing and being seen (link to substack) \\ @allsadnshit \\ alyse leah angélique des francs on lirr train \\ sam sax xenotransplantation (via @cloudswamp) \\ liana finck

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“From the River to the Sea.” A Poem by Samer Abu Hawwash, translated by Huda Fakhreddine

every street, every house, every room, every window, every balcony, every wall, every stone, every sorrow, every word, every letter, every whisper, every touch, every glance, every kiss, every tree, every spear of grass, every tear, every scream, every air, every hope, every supplication, every secret, every well, every prayer, every song, every ballad, every book, every paper, every color, every ray, every cloud, every rain, every drop of rain, every drip of sweat, every lisp, every stutter, every yamma, mother, every yaba, father, every shadow, every light, every little hand that drew in a little notebook a tree or house or heart or a family of a father, a mother, siblings, and pets, every longing, every possibility, every letter between two lovers that arrived or didn’t arrive, every gasp of love dispersed in the distant clouds, every moment of despair at every turn, every suitcase on top of

every closet, every library, every shelf, every minaret, every rug, every bell toll in every church, every rosary, every holy praise, every arrival, every goodbye, every Good Morning, every Thank God, every ‘ala rasi, my pleasure, every hill ‘an sama’i, leave me alone, every rock, every wave, every grain of sand, every hair-do, every mirror, every glance in every mirror, every cat, every meow, every happy donkey, every sad donkey’s gaze, every pot, every vapor rising from every pot, every scent, every bowl, every school queue, every school shoes, every ring of the bell, every blackboard, every piece of chalk, every school costume, every mabruk ma ijakum, congratulations on the baby, every y ‘awid bi-salamtak, condolences, every ‘ayn al- ḥasud tibla bil-‘ama, may the envious be blinded, every photograph, every person in every photograph, every niyyalak, how lucky, every ishta’nalak, we’ve missed you, every grain of wheat in every bird’s gullet, every lock of hair, every hair knot, every hand, every foot, every football, every finger, every nail, every bicycle, every rider on every bicycle, every turn of air fanning from every bicycle, every bad joke, every mean joke, every laugh, every smile, every curse, every yearning, every fight, every sitti, grandma, every

sidi, grandpa, every meadow, every flower, every tree, every grove, every olive, every orange, every plastic rose covered with dust on an abandoned counter, every portrait of a martyr hanging on a wall since forever, every gravestone, every sura, every verse, every hymn, every ḥajj mabrur wa sa ‘yy mashkur, may your ḥajj and effort be rewarded, every yalla tnam yalla tnam, every lullaby, every red teddy bear on every Valentine’s, every clothesline, every hot skirt, every joyful dress, every torn trousers, every days-spun sweater, every button, every nail, every song, every ballad, every mirror, every peg, every bench, every shelf, every dream, every illusion, every hope, every disappointment, every hand holding another hand, every hand alone, every scattered thought, every beautiful thought, every terrifying thought, every whisper, every touch, every street, every house, every room, every balcony, every eye, every tear, every word, every letter, every name, every voice, every name, every house, every name, every face, every name, every cloud, every name, every rose, every name, every spear of grass, every name, every wave, every grain of sand, every street, every kiss, every image, every eye, every tear, every yamma, every yaba, every name, every name, every name, every name, every name, every name, every name, every name, all…

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Faith Ringgold  | (October 8th, 1930 - April 13th, 2024)

Circa 1987, Photographer Unknown

Source: Smithsonian Institution

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martin scorsese and bruce springsteen discussing catholicism as a major inspiration in their life and art (x)

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Sunrise near the lake, March 2021.

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Kris Graves

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details @ philosophy di lorenzo serafini fall 2020