Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, & Bed Activism

Books & Chapters

  • Alshammari, A. (2023). Head above water: Reflections on illness. The Feminist Press. 
  • Brunton, T. (2022). Notes from a sickbed. Graphic Universe. 
  • Cowing, J. L. W. (2024). Rest as feminist disability praxis, or how to write while flaring, depressed, and totally burned out. In M. Jones & S. Kafai (Eds.), Mad scholars: Reclaiming and reimagining the neurodiverse academy (pp. 75-86). Syracuse University Press.
  • Diedrich, L. (2024). Illness politics and hashtag activism. University of Minnesota Press. 
  • Furnas, C. (2024). Crazy like a fox: Adventures in schizophrenia. Street Noise Books. 
  • Graybeal, A. (2023). Floppy: Tales of a genetic freak of nature at the end of the world. Red Hen Press. 
  • Lohman, N. (2024). The body alone: A lyrical articulation of chronic pain. University of Iowa Press. 
  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (2022). The future is disabled: Prophecies, love notes, and mourning songs. Arsenal Pulp Press. 
  • Hedva, J. (2024). How to tell when we will die: On pain, disability, and doom. Hillman Grad Books.
  • Hubrig, A. (2022). Chronicity rhetoric as queercrip activism. In J. Rhodes, & J. Alexander (Eds.)., The Routledge handbook of queer rhetoric (Chapter 40). Routledge.  
  • Khakpour, P. (2018). Sick: A memoir. Harper Perennial. 
  • Leavitt, S. (2024). Something, not nothing: A story of grief and love. Arsenal Pulp Press. 
  • Lorde, A. (2020). The cancer journals. Penguin Classics. 
  • Miller, T. (2021). What doesn’t kill you: A life with chronic Illness – Lessons from a body in revolt. Henry Holt & Co.
  • Norman, A. (2019). Ask me about my uterus: A quest to make doctors believe in women’s pain. Bold Type Books.
  • O’Rourke, M. (2023). The invisible kingdom: Reimagining chronic illness. Penguin Random House.
  • Ramey, S. (2020). The lady’s handbook for her mysterious illness: A memoir. Doubleday. 
  • Stanley, K. (2024). The pain project: A couple’s story of confronting chronic pain. Greystone Books. 
  • Sweeney, M. (2024). Brittle joints. Street Noise Books. 
  • Wang, E. W. (2019). The collected schizophrenias. Graywolf Press.
  • Williams, E. (2024). What’s wrong? Personal histories of chronic pain and bad medicine. Harry N. Abrams. 

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