Abstract:practices. 2 Illness-and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle.I first take up two hashtags-#SickHillary and #TrumpIsNot...practices. 2 Illness-and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle.I first take up two hashtags-#SickHillary and #TrumpIsNotWellused in the U.S. presidential election campaigns of 2016 and 2020, respectively, to demonstrate how illness politics has operated in recent mainstream electoral politics where illness functions as a metaphor for a candidate's supposed unfitness for office.I then explore illness and disability activist hashtags-#ADAPTandRESIST, #CripTheVote, and #TimeForUnrest-as examples of counterportals into other forms of illness-thought-activism in time. 3My last chapter on #LongCOVID doesn't conclude so much as foreground the ongoingness of illness politics as an enduring struggle against ableism and stigma and for care, access, and full citizenship and personhood.2. On the visual culture of health and medicine, see, for example, Olivia Banner, Communicative Biocapitalism:Read More