How to Tell When We Will Die - On Pain, Disability, and Doom

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.

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 When We Will Die expands upon Hedva-s paradigm-shifting perspective in a series of slyly subversive and razor-sharp essays that range from the theoretical to th