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W O W I love this book. This is one of the best books I have read about health and gender EVER. Hirsch shares about her own experiences surviving a series of catastrophic health events in her early twenties while intertwining the experiences of other female-identifying or minority individuals. I was most impressed with her intersectional approach; she includes WOC, incarcerated, queer, nonbinary, and trans individuals in her interviews and research. She herself is bisexual, and she uses her identity and health issues as a way to draw attention to our broken medical system. And it is broken in so many ways. Doctors not believing their patients, prolonging cancer diagnoses, discriminating against queer folx and POC, and even sexually assaulting their patients are all discussed at length. I originally picked up this book, hoping that it would discuss endometriosis (which it does briefly and accurately) but found myself connecting with this book on a whole other level. To be young, female, and sick in this society is no easy task, and it was nice to finally read something that accurately captures that experience.