“Our actual selves must now wear the false heroics of disease: every patient a celebrity survivor, smiling before the surgery and smiling after it” – Anne Boyer on the inspirational imperative
I posted before about the inspirational imperative, the the endless pressure to be “inspirational” as the response to stress, distress and setbacks. This passage from Anne Boyer’s New Yorker essay “What Cancer Takes…
Séamus Sweeney 