Adryan Corcione

“In political economies, illness is seen as a drag on productivity. Frequent or prolonged illness is often seen as disqualifying or devaluing an individual’s labor power. There is a rush to be over with ill health and get back to work as quickly as possible. Rest is scarce, and all treatment under health capitalism is rationed along class lines. The ways we encounter medicine reflect this dynamic: care is designed around billable encounters, acute care is most easily accessible, and our cultural imaginary frames disease as some thing which is episodic.”
― Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Health Communism

“Artists and visionaries are right about cannabis’s mind-expanding properties. Cannabis causes the prefrontal cortex to release a hormone called dopamine, which can help you tap into your creative side.”
― Sophie Saint Thomas, Finding Your Higher Self: Your Guide to Cannabis for Self-Care

“Summer days in the valley were the closest thing I had to religion. The shattered-glass water in the creek, the abundance of the mill, running like the wind was carrying me against an earth full of bones. It was awe and repentance, holy baptism washing the soles of my dirty feet. It was daydreaming that felt real for survival. It was all sacred ritual, inadvertent and weightless as grace.”
― Raechel Anne Jolie, Rust Belt Femme

“Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks