Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk, and it's all the patriarchy's fault. Poor Little Sick Girls is THE book for femmes who are online and want more from activism and life.

While the rest of Ione Gamble's generation pondered their place in the world, Ione spent days constantly fighting her bodhery to try and stay within it. Between being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in herlate teens and entering the adult world; her illness began to shift my perspective - spending hours trapped in the void of existence became an impossibility, and Ione had to decide what she wanted from life. Deciding to no longer accept her identity being belittled, refuted, or dismissed entirely; Ione chose to no longer be ignored.

Through a series of essays, Ione offers reflections on society as a young woman living with an incurable illness in an era defined by social politics, social media and self love. As an entrepreneur isolated by the #GirlBoss era. As a fat woman ignored within body positivity, and as an invisibly disabled person navigating a society that still negates her existence. Intertwining memoir with social commentary and feminist thought, these essays delve into the historical context that has led us to this moment. Looking at everything from previous representations of bodies like mine to the radical origins of feminism now used to sell razors, our relentless obsession with productivity to how women's pain has long been ignored, diminished, or refuted entirely. This collection will shine light on the experiences of marginalised people unable to fit within our optimisation obsessed world; while trying to find the brightness within it.