Laura Mauldin with Brittney Cooper

Laura Mauldin presents In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis
In conversation with Brittney Cooper
Brooklyn author Laura Mauldin presents her debut book, In Sickness and in Health, an urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners. When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school, she fell headlong into love. But just months into the relationship, her partner’s leukemia returned—and in a country without adequate systems for long-term care, Laura found herself quietly and devastatingly transformed from romantic partner to unpaid, full-time caregiver, fighting to keep the woman she loved alive in a system designed to let them both fall through the cracks. Now a sociologist and professor of disability studies, Dr. Mauldin turns her private pain into a searing public investigation. Urgent, unflinching, and full of grace, In Sickness and In Health is a rallying cry for a radical reimagining of care—not as an individual act of devotion, but as a collective responsibility. Mauldin discusses the book with Dr. Brittney Cooper, professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies and author of Eloquent Rage and Feminist AF, before an audience Q&A and signing.
The event space is accessible and ASL interpreters will be provided. To request accommodations for this event or to inquire about accessibility please email [email protected].

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