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“The idea of becoming sick in order to look healthy or beautiful speaks to how profoundly consumptive beauty ideals still shape the world we share.”

“At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history—something that killed depressive nineteenth-century poets, not present-tense humans. But as a friend once told me, ‘Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.’”