Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments
Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine the ways close reading can be used as a method for approaching vulnerable bodies and environments.
Creating A Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part Two)
The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, continues their practical guide to creating a ‘a fat medical utopia’. The second part focuses on medical education and personal responsibility.
Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part One)
The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, introduce five requirements to create ‘a fat medical utopia’. In this first part, they explore what patient centered care means for fat
‘Hmmm… first thing, let’s get you on a diet’ – A Comic
As a mid-week treat, Barry Deutsch lightens the mood, and prepares us for the series’ closing pieces on “Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia”. The comic illustrates the absurdity of fat bias in healthcare,
Fat Pain is Not Your Profundity
Rachel Fox explores how doctor-writer narratives often depict fat people in dehumanising and hurtful ways, and argues they need to be reframed with empathy. During my six years as a student in the medical
Pulling Up the Tangled Roots: Biomedical Oppression and Fat Liberation
Kristen Hardy explores how to change the biomedical system for the better to offer just and more complex care for fat people and members of other marginalized communities. That fat people’s encounters with the
Fatness and Healthcare: Fat Studies and Fat Activism Perspectives and Intervention
Cat Pausé introduces her fat studies and activism series, featuring artwork from Barry Deutsch and articles from Kristen Hardy, Rachel Fox and The LadyBears, exploring the experiences of fat people with the healthcare system,
Grief, Reading, and Narrative Time
Niamh Gordon explores narrative structure, grief and bereavement in Ali Smith’s contemporary novels In 2012, poet and philosopher Denise Riley published a slim essay, ‘Time Lived, Without Its Flow.’ The essay details Riley’s experience
Neuromaani and the Poetics of Illness
Laura Piippo discusses the challenging poetics of illness in Jaakko Yli-Juonikas’s experimental novel.
Fluxambol: Prototyping a Medicine of Uncertainty
In a hybrid essay, artist and researcher Sarah Scaife reflects on her prototyping of a medicine, which she calls Fluxambol.