![]() ![]() ![]() Read the first chapter here.Ī note on the term “sick woman,” from Sick Woman Theory: “Though the identity of “woman” has erased and excluded many (especially women of color and trans and genderfluid people), I choose to use it because it still represents the un-cared for, the secondary, the oppressed, the non-, the un-, the less-than… The Sick Woman is an identity and body that can belong to anyone denied the privileged existence – or the cruelly optimistic promise of such an existence – of the white, straight, healthy, neurotypical, upper and middle-class, cis- and able-bodied man who makes his home in a wealthy country, has never not had health insurance, and whose importance to society is everywhere recognized and made explicit by that society whose importance and care dominates that society, at the expense of everyone else. ![]() Sick Fest is Hedva’s first Bay Area appearance, and will be the debut of her latest work on Sick Woman Theory. This question is posed by LA-based writer and activist Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, a powerful polemic that identifies “sickness” as an invention and requirement of capitalism, ensuring that certain people, already historically oppressed, stay invisible and uncared for. ![]() How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed? Their essay Sick Woman Theory, published in 2016 in Mask, has been translated into six languages, and their activism toward accessibility, as outlined in. ![]()
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