'Will B'

the final essay in a memoir series on normative beauty, illness, and the U.S. culture that sustains both

“Interrupting the flows of social production is anarchic and counterproductive, like all good philosophy: if it works, it helps us stop and see our world in new ways. If it fails, as it often and even usually does, the interrupter is integrated, driven mad, ignored, or destroyed.” —Roy Scranton

How boring that my 29th year was what gave me pause. I was g…