Sadifura’s Reviews > Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century > Status Update

"With a chronic disease, prognosis is really more of an agnosis; as long as a condition remains chronic, one simply has it; one can go into remission or experience relapse or return." truly one of the quotes of all time

chapter 2 is so good i wish i could synthesize afropessimism's theory of social death and nonexistence into a theory of autistic + disabled (especially black autistic + disabled) nonexistence LIKE THE PARALLELS TO HOW BLACK SEXUALITY IS THOUGHT OF AS NONEXISTENT OR AN OBSESSIVE NOTHING DRIVE IS SO SIMILAR TO HOW AUTISTICS AND OTHER DISABLED PEOPLE ARE THOUGHT OF SUCH PARALLELS ABLEISM REALLY IS. AUGH