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July 3 - July 18, 2020
The first of our losses happened on September 11, 2001. Years later, during my freshman year at college, a popular topic of conversation in the dining hall was where you were on 9/11. I learned that no matter how far away you were from New York that day, no matter how distant your connection to that day was, no matter how much lower than zero the count of the people you lost on that day was, if you were white, 9/11 happened to you personally, with blunt and scalding force. Because the antithesis of an American is an immigrant and because we could not be victims in the public eye, we became
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But I don’t find this reliance on folk medicine charmingly idiosyncratic. Celebrating the treatment of illness with herbs purchased at the same place where love potions are sold is curious to me, especially through the gaze of an outsider. Many people I know, educated, well-off people, love alternative medicine. Whether the effect is real or placebo is not the pressing issue here, so much as the matter of choice and access. Those with resources might drink alternative tea treatments but will ultimately have the choice to have their cancer treated with chemotherapy and not herbs, an option
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“I understand I’ve been a good mother, but I want to know what it’d be like to be a successful woman on a personal level, not on the level of a mother,”
The wait is torturous for Ivy. It is torturous for her mom. It is torturous for the community. It is not torturous for the government.
RIP Anthony Bourdain, a homie who got it—and
