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In a series of brief notes Unbecoming explores questions of loss illness pain and disability It attends with care to the minutiae of everyday life shaped by illness and injury to center the ordinariness of non healthiness under capital and empire as well as the ways in which this unwellness invites new forms of political belonging and solidarity Moving across the hospital doctor s offices government bureaucracy university classrooms and the interiors of the home the text engages with literature news reports cultural theory and remembered conversations to gather shapes of collective survival that emerge from the continuity of crisis UnbecomingThis is the privilege of reading to be displaced from the comfort of what you know So much restrained power in these notes from Lacson Our country s struggle with understanding the nuances of disability and mental health with facilitating care work and proper treatment Ends on a hopeful note When you spend every day asking others for help you learn to cherish care as an idiom of belonging one that is political as much as it is intimate We belong to the world and to each other 127 4. Unbecoming definition and sentence 5to recognize that even in the path now closed to me I would not have survived without care of others Dependency meant I had to relearn intimacy to trust in others despite pain and humiliation to confront the deep rooted shame of the need to physically rely on other people to a greater extent than I could have ever imagined. Unbecoming definition and sentence intimate critical and profound I thought that as I read notes on a paralysis before that I knew what to expect but the book subverted it in the best possible way that shift in to record and melody song moved me. Unbecoming starset what a raw and arresting perspective on disability through the lens of a critic artistin awe of the writing and poignant voice just wow 127 privileged to know the woman who wrote this beautiful book. Unbecoming member a collection of notes revolving around disability angeli writes with the intellect perspective of someone beyond her years her graciousness her strength leave me in awe to read about 127