“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
I’m a person with a chronic illness. I can’t be on the barricades in the way that I might have been able to when I was really healthy. I can write books. I’m not saying you have to take on the entire spider web of oppression. You can still work in your own corner and do the thing you’re good at. But understanding how interconnected everything is, is actually the key that turns us from isolated and siloed people without power into a collective voice, that creates power, that pushes back against oppression. When we tell stories like that, when we write that, we give people a template to think about themselves as part of a collective instead of individuals that are oppressed by a thing that’s never going to get any better.
