Rupa Marya

“In the story of cancer and chemistry, the harm comes from exposure, and exposure inversely follows gradients of social power. Disproportionate harm is wrought on liberalism’s second-class citizens: the working class, women and children, the disabled, the colonized.”
― Rupa Marya, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

“the body is itself a kind of place—not a solid object but a terrain through which things pass, and in which they sometimes settle and sediment.”27 To wonder why some things settle in some bodies and not in others is to begin to ask questions about power, injustice, and inequity, questions that are bound in modern medicine with questions of colonialism.”
― Rupa Marya, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice