‘Mom Guilt’: Postpartum Depression and Motherhood
Prerna Tolani and Sathyaraj Venkatesan explore guilt and postpartum depression through the lens of Teresa Wong’s 2019 graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a psychiatric condition
‘LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness’: Book Review
Emily Mendelson reviews LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness: Chroniqueers in Southern Europe by Mara Pieri (Springer, 2023). As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues, millions of individuals find themselves chronically ill as a result of
Chemical relations: a humanistic glossary of hormones
Andrea Ford explores the social and humanistic aspects of hormonally-active chemicals in a forthcoming co-edited collection Hormonal Theory: A Cascading Glossary (2024) Form follows function, as the design maxim goes, but function also follows
Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Angela Woods and Des Fitzgerald invite abstracts for Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration What are the main sites of interdisciplinary collaboration in medical and health research and how, exactly, do they work?
The Polyphony Meets NNMHR
The Polyphony team is excited to attend the 2023 NNMHR Congress, hosted online by Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. Our editors will interact with panels
Neurodivergent Humanities Network and Mentorship Programme Launch
'New ways of thinking, being and doing research': the founders explain the ethos of the Neurodivergent Humanities Network and introduce their anti-hierarchical mentorship scheme.
Maddening the ‘Normal’ Mind
Jodie Russell argues for Philosophy of Mind scholarship to move beyond the conception of the psyche as either rational/irrational. It is only through abandoning this opposition- and engaging with Mad Studies- that a more
Uncomfortable Bedfellows? Critical Disability Studies and Psychoanalysis
Dr. Joe Holloway makes a case for bringing the traditionally differentiated frameworks of psychoanalysis and critical disability studies into dialogue with each-other. Despite the excellent research from a range of scholars working at the
Poetry and Stimming
In this blog for World Autism Acceptance Week, James McGrath, an autistic poet and academic, advocates the value of “stimming” and explores how it relates to poetry. I dedicate the lipogramatic poem below to