Performing wellness, concealing pain: a gendered continuum of challenges for women with lupus in the workplace

By centring invisibility, gender, and resistance, this study advances feminist disability perspectives on chronic illness and work. It highlights how episodic disablement is structurally misrecognised in organisations designed around uninterrupted performance. The study argues for institutional models of inclusion that account for bodily unpredictability, fluctuating capacity, and the complexity of living and working with episodic illness.