“For those lucky enough to grow old with life partners, they learn the kind of care that is kind and gracious. When the caretaker does not suffer to perform care, the one who receives care is unburdened from becoming a burden and learns to receive it as love. For those of us who have disabled bodies, we are lucky enough to learn that now. ”
— Love (and Food) Actually, America's Test Kitchen Proof Podcast
“No one looks at you when you are ugly. You know you are because you are looked through—rendered invisible to the ones who look away, and made into spectacle by the ones who devour your decaying meat with disgust. ”
“I cannot and do not wish to master, overcome, and transform my body. I can and must live with my lupus, accept my body, and ask to be accepted as I am.”
— The Virus You Forgot to Panic For, Harvard Crimson
