Sublime

the lies we want to believe tell us something about ourselves.

When health becomes an identity, sickness becomes not something that happens to you, but who you are.

For both Baraka and O’Hara, the tone and texture of intimate conversation was an aesthetic of resistance.

Immunity is a public space. And it can be occupied by those who choose not to carry immunity.

James Guthrie writes, “that ownership of all kinds is a precarious business at best, or at worst, a form of self-delusion.”

The concept of a “risk group,” Susan Sontag writes, “revives the archaic idea of a tainted community that illness has judged.”

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.

How can we hope to change anything, she asked, “if we don’t rebel in the everyday?”