Anomie Fatale is a nursing student in Philadelphia. She was Miss Wheelchair PA. She has EDS and Chiari.
Mazal Horesh is Jewish and has EDS. Mazal met Emet first through PrettySick, a facebook group for chronically ill and disabled queer femme folks. Mazal is a researcher based in Bryn Mawr. Noah and Mazal sat shmira for Emet together.
Joan Fanwick Oral History Interview
Joan Fanwick is a special education teacher in the Philadelphia public schools. She has EDS and is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, like Emet. She was dating Oren at the time Emet was in hospice, and she also cared for Rabbi Annie Lewis’s children.
Katie Bruckmann Oral History Interview. Katie was Miss Wheelchair DC 2021, and she is a public school teacher based in Boston. Katie was born with spina bifida, and she is also a pancreatic cancer survivor. Katie met Emet through PrettySick, a facebook group for disabled and chronically ill folks who are more on the femme side of things.
Michaela Hearst Oral History Interview
Michaela met Emet in high school, at the Abraham Joshua Heschel school in Manhattan, a pluralistic Jewish day school. Michaela is a licensed clinical social worker, a doctoral student in education, and she has nonverbal learning disability.
Shayn Oral History Interview. Shayn is Jewish and has EDS. Shayn is based in North Carolina.
Niko Oral History Interview. Niko is a graduate student at the University of Delaware. Niko met Emet through PrettySick, a facebook group for chronically ill and disabled folks on the more femme side of the spectrum. Niko had EDS and Long COVID. Niko was dating Kit at the time Emet was in hospice.