Playing Through the Grief

Edda Þórunn Þórarinsdóttir was in her fourth year of medical school when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that turns most people's lives upside down.

Playing through the grief

Point Lonsdale musician, artist and disability advocate Bree-Arne Manley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 20 years ago. She speaks with Jena Carr about her experience and the launch of her new album ‘Good Grief’. Bree-Arne Manley was like any other 19-year-old, enjoying her life outside school while travelling and being active. But her world would soon come crashing down when her vision suddenly started to deteriorate in one eye. “I had jus…

From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty

Listen to this article0:00/1328.9273471×There is a common admonition that often circulates on social media, especially among leftists, that goes something like: You don’t have to ask what you would’ve done during the Holocaust, or any other historical atrocity. You're doing it right now. These words are valuable in that they encourage us to abandon fantasies of who we would have been in another context, and to live our values here and now.As an …