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Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries

Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders. Introducing

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On Reading Care in ‘Girl in White Cotton’

Sonakshi Srivastava explores the narrativisation of a caregiver's well-being in Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton (2020) Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton or

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Visiting the “Can robots care?” exhibition: report from the launch

Beata Gubacsi reflects on the “Can robots care?” exhibition launch, the first big event of the Imagining Posthuman Care project, bringing together medicine, technology, and popular culture through posthumanism, running

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Posthuman Care in More-Than-Human Worlds

Anna McFarlane reports from the hybrid Futures of Care Symposium that took place in mid-April at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds, discussing care tech, robots, and their relationship to

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Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries

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On Reading Care in ‘Girl in White Cotton’

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Visiting the “Can robots care?” exhibition: report from the launch

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Posthuman Care in More-Than-Human Worlds

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Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries

24 May 202225 May 2022

Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders. Introducing novel ideas in uncharted

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On Reading Care in ‘Girl in White Cotton’

18 May 202210 May 2022

Sonakshi Srivastava explores the narrativisation of a caregiver’s well-being in Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton (2020) Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton or Burnt Sugar (as published

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Visiting the “Can robots care?” exhibition: report from the launch

13 May 202213 May 2022

Beata Gubacsi reflects on the “Can robots care?” exhibition launch, the first big event of the Imagining Posthuman Care project, bringing together medicine, technology, and popular culture through posthumanism, running until 16th October 2022.

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Posthuman Care in More-Than-Human Worlds

12 May 2022

Anna McFarlane reports from the hybrid Futures of Care Symposium that took place in mid-April at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds, discussing care tech, robots, and their relationship to our health, and our

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Patients, Doctors and Activism
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Revisiting Patient Organisations

10 May 20229 May 2022

Ylva Söderfeldt reflects on the history of patient organisations and raises questions about how to redefine the histories of patient activism During the COVID-19 pandemic, the contradictory position of medicine in contemporary society has

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‘Breast Cancer Inside Out’: Book Review

6 May 202226 April 2022

Gita Ralleigh reviews , Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies & Beliefs, edited by Kimberly R. Myers (Peter Lang, 2021)     In Breast Cancer Inside Out, Kimberly Myers, a medical humanities scholar who

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Proprioceptive Care in Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume

5 May 20225 May 2022

Swati Joshi explores the concepts of self-care and proprioceptive care via Beckett’s last TV play, a wordless piece featuring only a dreaming man and his dreamed self. When one thinks of hands, one visualises

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‘ON CARE’: Book Review

29 April 202226 April 2022

Joe Wood reviews ON CARE, edited by Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland (Ma Bibliothèque, 2020)   ‘Send fruit’ is apparently what Chileans say over the phone on international calls. Like asking about the weather, this

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‘Complaint!’ A (Complaint) Collective Book Review: Part III

27 April 202227 April 2022

This post, by Kellie Coretta Golbourne, is Part III of a series of responses to Complaint! by Sara Ahmed (2021: Duke University Press). For the other contributions, click here. ‘Makes me wanna holla, throw

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‘Complaint!’ A (Complaint) Collective Book Review: Part I

27 April 202226 April 2022

This post, by Rachel Jane Liebert, is Part I of a series of responses to Complaint! by Sara Ahmed (2021: Duke University Press). For the other contributions, click here. “To complain is to admit

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