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On Cure Evangelism
Cure evangelism is a scourge which seems unlikely to vanish any time soon, so we may as well address it and have a little chat about what it is, why it is problematic, and what you, personally, can do...
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On Causes and Cures
As a member of the trans community, I often encounter people who desperately want to know why people are transgender. What happens to ‘make’ people trans. The same root search for a cause also comes up...
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Disability’s No Fairytale: Stop Treating Disabled People Like Sleeping Beauty
Life for disabled people is commonly assumed to be a sort of limbo, a search for meaning; if you are disabled, you are waiting around for a cure, hoping that someday, somewhere, someone will figure out...
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Cure Evangelism, Again
The cure evangelists appear to be riding hot and heavy again, which requires me, once again, to explain what cure evangelism is and why it is oh so very annoying. For those of you already on board,...
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‘Just try harder’: The Health Bootstraps
The rhetoric about good patients and bad patients includes an element of bootstrapping that often goes unexamined; very similar rhetoric is used in conversations about poor people, and it’s telling to...
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Armchair Diagnosis: Just Don’t
Lay people seem to have a growing understanding of medicine, especially psychiatry. At this point, it’s likely we won’t need doctors at all in a few years, because people seem to be so confident that...
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Disability: Stop Asking ‘Why,’ Start Asking ‘How Can I Help?’
Every year, hundreds of studies involving disabilities take place in the US, like wide-sweeping lookbacks into cases of autism and research into multiple sclerosis. The majority of these studies,...
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