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Sufian, S., Mueller, R., Langfelder-Schwind, E., Caldwell, K., Brown, G., Ruben, M., Mody, S., Walker, P., & Godfrey, E. (2024). When chronicity meets cyclicity: The cultivation of embodied knowledge and selfhood by cis-gender women with cystic fibrosis. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100412
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UIC Institute for the Humanities. (2022, October 18). The reciprocal politics of bed space activism: Creative resistance and radical world making [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHO26DZAqUI