But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness a book by Kindra M. Austin, Candice Louisa Daquin, and Christine E. Ray

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But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness features 123 powerful voices living with invisible chronic illnesses- voices often stigmatized, ignored, or isolated by society. These pages are emblazoned with the words and art of those waging a war against a wide range of debilitating, and often unseen, illnesses. The reader will journey deep into the lives of the contributors, intimately sharing moments of pain, heartbreak, loneliness, strength, courage, humor, and survival. These voices are both revelation and revolution, an unstoppable force pieced together by writers and artists worldwide, demonstrating what happens when warriors come together to educate and fight for their truths to be heard.

"[But You Don't Look Sick] exposes the gendered, racialized and class-based inequalities that persist within the realms of diagnosis and healthcare provision, while underscoring the urgency of activism, education and the ongoing fight for justice for individuals with invisible illnesses."

- Dr. Tanfer Emin Tunc, Professor of American Studies at Hacettepe University

"Above all, however, But You Don't Look Sick is a powerful human showing of how opening to one's pain generates courage and helps spread awareness. By opening the heart and manifesting compassion, this book helps drive change."

-Jaya Avendel, Author & the poetic voice behind Nin Chronicles

Product Details

Price

$22.99 $21.38

Publisher

Indie Blue Publishing LLC

Publish Date

November 04, 2021

Pages

538

Dimensions

6.0 X 9.0 X 1.2 inches | 1.72 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781951724139

About the Author

Kindra M. Austin is an author and co-founder of Indie Blu(e) Publishing. Austin is an advocate for mental health awareness, sexual trauma survivors, and for the LGBTQ community. She writes from the state of Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her debut novel was released in 2017; she has since written and published two other novels, as well as four poetry collections. Other Indie Blu(e) publications include contributions to We Will Not Be Silenced, and SMITTEN; Austin has also written for The Mansfield Pride magazine, an annual periodical out of Ohio. You can find her books at Amazon, Barnes and Noble online, and at other major online retailers.

Candice Louisa Daquin is of Sephardi French/Egyptian descent. Born in Europe, Daquin worked in publishing for The American Embassy before immigrating to America to study and become a Psychotherapist, where she has continued writing and editing whilst practicing as a therapist. Daquin has worked at Jewish Community Centers and Rape Crisis Centers both in Texas and Ontario, Canada. Her area of specialization is adults sexually abused as children. Prior to publishing her own poetry collections, Daquin regularly wrote for the poetry periodical Rattle and The Northern Poetry Review. Daquin is currently Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing, a feminist micro-press and Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink. She edits for Parcham Literary Magazine, Tint Journal and The Pine Cone Review. Daquin's poetic work takes its form from the confessional women poets of the 19th and 20th century as well as queer authors writing from the 1950's onward. Her career(s) teaching critical thinking and practicing as a psychotherapist have heavily influenced her work, with explored key themes including, sexual-dysfunction, sexual-abuse, parental-relationships, mental illness and queer-identity. Daquin's work is also significantly imprinted by Audre Lorde, Françoise Sagan, Angela Carter, activist Egyptian physician Nawal El Saadawi, Navdanya seed bank creator/campaigner Vandana Shiva, Pablo Neruda, Israeli PM Golda Mier, Toni Morrison and feminist philosophers bell hooks, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray.Daquin is co-editor of the award-winning anthologies SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women, The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within / Indian Women's Voices, The New Condemned: Contemporary Albanian Poetry in English, Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava - Любовні листи до України від Уяви, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art. Her latest personal collection is Tainted by the Same Counterfeit (Finishing Line Press, 2022).

Christine E. Ray lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A former Managing Editor of Sudden Denouement Publications, she founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing with Kindra M. Austin in September 2018. Ray is author of Composition of a Woman and The Myths of Girlhood. Her writing is also featured in SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like, We Will Not Be Silent, Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, Swear to Me, and All the Lonely People. Read more of her work at https: //braveandrecklessblog.com/.

Reviews

"[But You Don't Look Sick] exposes the gendered, racialized and class-based inequalities that persist within the realms of diagnosis and healthcare provision, while underscoring the urgency of activism, education and the ongoing fight for justice for individuals with invisible illnesses."

Dr. Tanfer Emin Tunc, Professor of American Studies at Hacettepe University

"Above all, however, But You Don't Look Sick is a powerful human showing of how opening to one's pain generates courage and helps spread awareness. By opening the heart and manifesting compassion, this book helps drive change."

Jaya Avendel, Author & the poetic voice behind Nin Chronicles

"'But You Don't Look Sick' explores the forgotten, unspoken and ugly-beautiful nooks of chronic illness. Because there are profound moments of horror and beauty when you're hovering between worlds, on days when you feel you can't do it anymore, in the silent hours when you really question if you're actually there, physically existing. . . Educate me. Educate all of us. We need it."

Beverley Butcher, Author of 'Sisterhood of Broken Dolls' included in the anthology 'Disturbing the Body', @boudiccapress, March 2021

"This book is not only valuable for people living with invisible illness but should be required reading for those living and working alongside them. Which is to say, all of us...

The wellness industry has convinced the majority that with money, intention and the perfect execution of diet, exercise and hygiene one's health is simply an issue of personal choice. For people with untreatable conditions, the judgement from society is unrelenting. If their health isn't a perverse lifestyle decision, it must be a ploy to shirk the moral imperative to sacrifice themselves either to a career or to the physical and emotional care of others. But You Don't Look Sick is both beautifully crafted and a damning examination of the complex harm caused by these social biases."

Melissa Hill, Political Artist and Board Member of the disability arts charity DAO in the UK

"As a woman who has lived her life battling an invisible illness and chronic pain, I found myself swept up in the compelling collection, But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness. The raw truth in each person's journey was heart wrenching, eye opening, and emotionally captivating. I found myself devouring this book piece after piece until I'd read the book all the way through."

Ravven White, Author of 'I am Ravven'"