Posts by sarcozona

Being chronically ill doesn’t make me a better person, but it does help me identify jerks

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I assume people think surviving illness changes you because there’s something inherently character-building about pain. But what happened wasn’t a struggle, in the sense that through perseverance I overcame something difficult. For a fairly brief but unexpected period of my life, I lost my capacity to work, to advocate for myself, to navigate life and […]

Please visit me at home; everything is too much

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The disability associated with severe cases of migraine extends far beyond days spent in bed. Online, people talk about the ways that migraine has rendered them housebound. Driving, for instance, can be difficult; shifting lights trigger migraines and drug side effects cause clumsiness. People with migraine stay home because they fear perfumes or other foreign […]

Voting with your dollars has some serious problems

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Who needs city housing regulators when AirBnB can use data-driven methods to effectively regulate room-letting, then house-letting, and eventually urban planning generally? Why not let Amazon have its own jurisdiction or charter city, or establish special judicial procedures for Foxconn? Some vanguardists of functional sovereignty believe online rating systems could replace state occupational licensure—so rather […]

Can we smash that mirror now?

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Most anti-neoliberalism fails to deal with the macro-problems of endless compound growth — ecological, political, and economic problems. So I would rather be talking about anticapitalism than anti-neoliberalism. via Neoliberalism Is a Political Project

Boring patients with boring diseases

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When focusing on the paper crackling between my chilled skin and the vinyl of the exam bed wasn’t enough to distract from the discomfort of my treatment, I asked my neurologist why there are so few specialists for migraine. I’ve been seeing a specialist in stroke for the last 5 years while I wait for […]