This Is Us

We Live in an Economy of Pain

I work so the medical industry will prescribe something so that I can do more work

M. B. Moorer
Human Parts
Published in
20 min readOct 5, 2020

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Pain organ — MAS, graphite, paper, multimedia

“for what is quite literally at stake in the body in pain is the making and unmaking of the world.” (Scarry, 23)

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M. B. Moorer
Human Parts

Work published at Tin House, Electric Lit, Hobart, The Offing, Future Fire, The Toast. I research for Roxane Gay. | melissamoorer.com