Ep. 201 The Language of Chronic Illness with Tessa Miller
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today we are joined by Tessa Miller, and author and journalist whose work focuses on chronic illness, disability, and health justice. We discuss Tessa's debut book, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt and how publishing a memoir brought on a whole new level of anxiety and insecurities around being a writer and living with chronic illness. We also talk about graphic language, writing for multiple audiences, and prioritizing books by disabled and/or chronically ill authors.
You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/02/02/ep-201-tessa-miller
The Stacks Book Club selection for February is I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue, we will discuss the book on February 23rd with Tessa Miller.
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| 1:14.5 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas our guest today is |
| 1:20.5 | Tessa Miller Tessa is the author of what doesn't kill you a life with chronic illness |
| 1:25.1 | She is also a journalist whose work focuses on chronic illness disability and health justice |
| 1:29.9 | We talk today about the insecurities around publishing a memoir |
| 1:33.6 | Writing about bodily functions and Tessa's favorite gluten-free snacks |
| 1:38.6 | The stacks book club pick for February is I live a life like yours by Jan Grueh |
| 1:42.7 | And we will be discussing the book on Wednesday, February 23rd with this week's guest Tessa Miller |
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