The Impairing Curse
The Impairing Curse is a long-form, serialized experiment in lyric essay, science journalism, and policy analysis, on being ill in a pandemic.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 57 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Do Us Part
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In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry. She didn’t believe in the institution, didn’t want the pomp and public scrutiny, didn’t adhere in the sanctity — having wa...
Don't worry kitten
“Don’t worry kitten”
This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption “abolish ICE” and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent in the fight for j...
Lady Knight Era
Cover of “Lioness Rampant” by Tamora Pierce
In workout classes I often think of Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, in which bootleg copies of an sophisticated interactive device — A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer — designed to educate upp...
Well-ness
The chronically sick rarely get to enjoy wellness culture. You need the disposable wealth of the well-off to access the wellspring of water circuits; a baseline of normative function to qualify for the cult fitness classes of the ‘post-’pan...
Speculation
Severance, Season 2
I watched both seasons of Severance as one long domino, having been too sick when it first came out to watch TV or partake in cultural discourse. There is something to the timing: released in April 2022 after the COVID...
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