REBECCA MCNAMARA, ASSOCIATE CURATOR, TANG TEACHING MUSEUM BY REBECCA MCNAMARA, ASSOCIATE CURATOR, TANG TEACHING MUSEUM | Learning about a stranger’s anguish and suffering can feel like voyeurism, even when that stranger invites us in. When reading Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, I repeatedly wanted to turn away rather than trespass on such intimate details in her battle with cancer. So many of us are un-practiced at engaging in someone else’s bodily pain, with their mortality — with visiting the kingdom of the sick when we are in the kingdom of the well. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:02:29 -0800