Katey

“Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.” This can become a kind of double burden for the sick: In addition to living with the physical and psychological challenges of illness, there is the additional challenge of having one’s humanity discounted.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The beauty of women is greatly owing to their delicacy, or weakness.” One romantic word to describe the beauty standard—delicacy—followed by a stigmatizing one—weakness.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“For me, anyway, this way of understanding chronic illness—as being of the world but also not permitted by circumstances or the social order to be entirely with the world—is a sentiment applied from within rather than from without, a way of thinking about the limits and opportunities of disability that acknowledges difference and loss without othering or romanticizing. It’s not trustful or loving or soothing or mild. It’s true.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“And so we must fight not just for reform within the system but also for better systems that understand human health not primarily as a market”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection