Why the sickfluencer trend is about belonging, not attention
Over the past few weeks, the legitimacy of the online disability community has once again become an object of public scrutiny. Prompted in part by the Telegraph's "How Having a Disability Became Cool," which attributes the increasing rate of chronic…
Over the past few weeks, the legitimacy of the online disability community has once again become an object of public scrutiny. Prompted in part by the Telegraph’s “How Having a Disability Became Cool,” which attributes the increasing rate of chronic illness in young women in part to lifestyle trends, the conversation has since metastasized across social media, where an ostensibly simple observation has given way to the much more contentious …
Why the sickfluencer trend is about belonging, not attention
