![]() Attached to the bed, I rose up my sick woman fist, in solidarity. I listened to the sounds of the marches as they drifted up to my window. The park, then, is not surprisingly one of the most active places of protest in the city. I live one block away from MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, a predominantly Latino neighborhood and one colloquially understood to be the place where many immigrants begin their American lives. ![]() This particular flare coincided with the Black Lives Matter protests, which I would have attended unremittingly, had I been able to. In late 2014, I was sick with a chronic condition that, about every 12 to 18 months, gets bad enough to render me, for about five months each time, unable to walk, drive, do my job, sometimes speak or understand language, take a bath without assistance, and leave the bed. ![]()
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