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Mass Incarceration’s Dystopia Gets Even Worse: Harvesting Organs and Co-Opting Radical Language
Content warning: incarceration, enslavement, white supremacy, experimentation on adults and children, family separation, death from medical neglect, medical industrial complex, prison industrial complex, trauma, state violence In 1949, an incarcerated white man in Sing-Sing Correctional Facility named Louis Boy…
Substandard of Care: Accommodations in Healthcare
You can listen to an audio version of this essay here. As told to Editor-in-Chief Denarii Grace Rooted in Rights would like to acknowledge that this essay is the product of a collaborative effort between the storyteller…
No, I Can’t Always Give You 24 Hours’ Notice
“I’m sorry, but I’m not going to be able to make it to my appointment today. I’m in too much pain. I can’t sit long, let alone drive.” “Since you’re calling with less than 24 hours’ notice, there will …
Very Unfair: The Nightmare of Institutionalization
Like so much in this dystopia, care is about money. And disability is most certainly expensive. The durable medical equipment, medication, personal care, transportation, home modifications—the shopping list goes on. And everything tagged “accessible” is marked way up. Until I …
Chronically Ignored: How Western Medical Practices Harm Chronically Ill People
At 7:47 pm, I had so many wires attached to me. Though I craved my typical end of the day shower, I had to find another way to self-soothe. I did some yoga, avoiding the Superman and cobra poses; they …
What’s In A Pair of Socks?
CONTENT NOTE: blood work, medical trauma, emetophobia, medical ableism I sat on the hard metal gurney, watching my legs shake underneath the torn forest green scrubs. I tried to count my breaths, my ears throbbing from the cacophony of emergency …