Why Ebola is a feminist issue: Sickness, selfhood, and the small purple worm We’ve all seen it by now: the electron micrograph of the Ebola virus, cryptically topping headlines from the New York Times to the Daily Mail. It is the picture of Ebola in the U.S.: small, expensive, and high-definition. This tiny, purple worm, though, is not the face of Ebola. The face of Ebola is human. It is, importantly, usually black and usually female. It is a face of fear, desperation, and grinding poverty–electron micrographs have no place in the daily experience of Ebola. feministing/2014/11/06/why-ebola-is-a-feminist-issue-sickness-selfhood-and-the-small-purple-worm/
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:28:05 +0000
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