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Posts Tagged: Illness as Metaphor

Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss

By Sarah Appleton Pine

December 14th, 2020

Eula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.

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Tags: Binyamin Appelbaum, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, capitalism, class inequality, class privilege, Claudia Rankine, COVID-19, David Graeber, David Markson, Debt, Don't Let Me Be Lonely, economics, economy, Emily Dickinson, Eula Biss, gender inequality, H1N1, Having and Being Had, Illness as Metaphor, income inequality, Joan Didion, Mariana Mazzucato, Marxism, Marxist, metaphor, middle-class, money, On Immunity, pandemic, privilege, Racism, Sarah Appleton Pine, sexism, susan sontag, This Is Not a Novel, Thomas Piketty, vaccination, virginia woolf, vulnerability

Variants of Unknown Significance

By Mai Tran

June 3rd, 2020

My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.

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Tags: audre lorde, bra, bra shopping, breast cancer, breasts, California, cancer, childhood trauma, college, dating app, death, doctor, family tree, femininity, genes, genetic testing, genetics, Gollum, Griffith Park, gynecologist, health, hospital, Illness as Metaphor, Lord of the Rings, Mai Tran, mammogram, mastectomy, Mother's Day, mothers, mothers and daughters, Mourning Diary, oncologist, pediatric oncologist, pediatrician, Roland Barthes, Sex, stepmom, stepmother, susan sontag, tattoo, The Cancer Journals, trauma

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