Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0823297667 ISBN13: 9780823297665 Release Date: October 2021 Publisher: Fordham University Press Length: 208 Pages Weight: 0.80 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0" An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an "eye stroke." A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, Alexander recounts both the immediate aftermath of his health crisis, which marked deeper health concerns, as well as his experiences as a queer person subject to medical intervention. A pressure that the queer ill contend with is feeling at fault for their condition, of having somehow chosen illness as punishment for the