Peggy Munson

  • Peggy Munson's new campaign to eradicate XMRV Peggy Munson’s new campaign to eradicate XMRV
    Just launched: The EXIT Project (Eradicate XMRV Infection Today), is a broad-based group of individuals who do ACT-UP style actions to raise awareness about ME/CFS/XMRV.
  • The best offense is a good offense: what we need to learn from AIDS The best offense is a good offense: what we need to learn from AIDS
    by Peggy Munson | ...ME/CFS patients have tended to get sucked into what domestic violence activists call the “cycle of violence,” believing the bullies’ lies that they will change...
  • We, Tuskegee? We, Tuskegee?
    Severe ME/CFS/MCS patient Peggy Munson was hospitalized, near death, after the Ice Storm of December 11, 2008 and ensuing 3-day power outage. She remembers today, one year later.
  • Fly Away to XAND-ado, or Where Is Elaine DeFreitas? Fly Away to XAND-ado, or Where Is Elaine DeFreitas?
    CFS/ME patient-activist Peggy Munson's latest missive urges other CFS/ME patients to Tweet, post on Facebook and use other accessible forms of activism to keep the XMRV conversation going.
  • “First, Do No Pharma”
    Peggy Munson, ME/CFS patient/activist, counters Mike Adams and other proponents of alternative medicine that have written off XMRV as Big Pharma conspiracy.
  • The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite
    by Peggy Munson | Hi Friends & fellow revolutionaries, As some of you may know, the biggest news to hit the ME/CFS community -- ever -- just dropped a couple of days ago on October 9, 2009.
  • Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral Elephant Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral Elephant
    In the ME/CFS community, since yesterday, there has been a swell of jubilation. This may seem odd to a lot of people considering that researchers just found something in our blood similar to HIV.
  • Short List of Common Pesticides Short List of Common Pesticides
    1. Lindane | When someone found white dwarfs behind my ears | I was deloused with mustard gas | I had a daily headache that was like a single eye
  • Corkscrewed! Me and My Lyme Corkscrewed! Me and My Lyme
    Just when I thought there were no other ways to be pathogenically screwed, I have been corkscrewed.
  • Nerve Gas in the Living Room Nerve Gas in the Living Room
    Imagine if a company offered to sell you nerve gas to spray in your living room, or if leftover Agent Orange, watered down, was slathered on the grounds where your children go to school.
  • The Cells of My Identity The Cells of My Identity
    In a setup that was far too Oedipal, I was sleeping in a small room with my mother while visiting my sister in D.C., when I finally blurted out the news that I had a girlfriend, that I was bisexual and maybe gay.
  • The Invisible Panelist The Invisible Panelist
    Long before I became disabled at age 23, I had encounters with the unseen. Being queer gave me an innate sense of when to come out, how to hide, and how to recognize evangelistic rage.
  • Self: Ornithology: The Immune System Self: Ornithology: The Immune System
    Everywhere I go now there are crows, following | me like innuendo, their feathers fanning out ominous | as police fingerprints. | With evolutionary anthropology, | they are condemning me.
  • Who Is That Bubble Girl? Who Is That Bubble Girl?
    I have to live a life immaculately free of chemicals: a bubble life. And by chemicals, I mean, the crap that has infiltrated almost every known product since WWII.