“Cure promises us so much, but it will never give us justice”

This book opens by talking about a mosaic in uptown (which was unfortunately torn down last year). As soon as he started describing it my head started spinning, because it couldn’t be that one, could it?? But when he kept going he confirmed it to me, and my heart was so full. 

There is so much to love in this book. I have talked in the past about how since finishing school I’ve struggled with theory and denser nonfiction, and while this is in that realm of content it was written in a very accessible way. I loved the flow of the pieces, how the topics and themes and points were woven into one another and kept showing up throughout. I loved how this really laid bare the complexity of cure and our relationship to it, which is something I have grappled with as I both ache for cure and cherish the way my disabled experience informs and guides my life. I absolutely loved the conversation around environmental activism and disability, with how ads and organizations use disability as a threat for what would happen if we don’t treat the environment better. I have worked so much over the years on holding space for nuance, and this book was rife with it. Holy shit. What a good book.