num_pages: 192
description: The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again writer activist and migrant Jessica Gaitn Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope and more.The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility community and choice belonging and bodies. They carry vital signals.
language: English
title: The Nerves and Their Endings
publisher: Scribe UK