ARGONAUT BOOKS

In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, 'Sick Woman Theory', became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism - a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies - we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others. 'How to Tell Wh...Read More