M.V. Perry

“Like other matters in the US, suffering was a communal phenomenon made private. It ought to have been aired out and understood as something that existed amongst social relations—between parent and child, person amongst peers, women amongst men, white amongst Black, boss amongst worker—and yet it was removed from this context and rearticulated as a personal burden of genetically disadvantaged people. For lack of a better phrase, “just deal with it” was the governing mantra. Some could deal with it—that is, repress it—and did not speak to it outside of the trust of a few intimate confidants. Others had a more precarious, vulnerable disposition to insanity, and the individualization of suffering came at a tremendous personal cost.”
― M.V. Perry, A Revolution of the Mind