It was November 2018 when I received an email from fellow medical anthropology colleagues putting the call out to meet the caravan of migrants then converging on the border in Tijuana. I had just learned that I did not have a tumor in my ovary. The temporality of my illness truncated my present,..
Ashwak Hauter
Ashwak Hauter is a Yemeni-American writer and poet. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the joint program for medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco. Her research explores the socio-political and economic demands made upon medicine by emerging moral and post-colonial subjectivities.