Caryn Kseniya Rubanovich received her A.B. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, and her M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University where she studied clinician-patient relationships. Her work has been featured in Adios Barbie, Everyday Feminism, and Voice in Bioethics. Caryn is passionate about utilizing technology to overcome barriers in clinical care.
The compromises that have tenuously held together the marriage of convenience that is the American body politic are eroding under unprecedented societal forces: shifting demographics, climate change, a global pandemic, mass unemployment, and massive economic inequality. These forces shock a nation like infidelity, job loss, or family pressures might shock a marriage.
The ailments, agist stereotypes, and ultimate end-point of death itself rarely figure in the minds of the young. Until, that is, the long-term consequences of our short-term denial become more and more obvious as the years pass.