Your Healing is Killing Me

by Virginia Grise

Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto that seeks to replace individual self-care with collective self-defense. One artist’s reflections on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and kickstarter funded self-care. Based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools and from the...

Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto that seeks to replace individual self-care with collective self-defense. One artist’s reflections on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and kickstarter funded self-care. Based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools and from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists.

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  • Alicia Margarita Olivo: Your Healing is Killing Me

    "Are you a Revolutionary? It is the only question that matters." An unflinching call to action that also serves as an incisive look at the reality of living in a white capitalist hellscape. As someone who struggles with looking at artistry as part of survival, I found this to be exactly what I needed to hear to keep going. Survival and artistry are one and the same; for survival, it's either all of us or none of us. Thank you to Grise for writing this.

    "Are you a Revolutionary? It is the only question that matters." An unflinching call to action that also serves as an incisive look at the reality of living in a white capitalist hellscape. As someone who struggles with looking at artistry as part of survival, I found this to be exactly what I needed to hear to keep going. Survival and artistry are one and the same; for survival, it's either all of us or none of us. Thank you to Grise for writing this.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Your Healing is Killing Me

    Brilliant performance manifesto so exquisitely written, so relatable and moving, for any revolutionary! I am inspired forever again and again reading this. Wow! This is what paper is for.

    Brilliant performance manifesto so exquisitely written, so relatable and moving, for any revolutionary! I am inspired forever again and again reading this. Wow! This is what paper is for.

  • Kate Danley: Your Healing is Killing Me

    A stunning one-woman show that brings to mind the flavors of Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street." While highly personal, it is also universal, and opens the door to conversation, reflection, and growth.

    A stunning one-woman show that brings to mind the flavors of Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street." While highly personal, it is also universal, and opens the door to conversation, reflection, and growth.