What Else is Made Through Making?
Anni Raw reflects on the dynamic between trust and risk set up through crafting activities at QUEERCIRCLE.
Developing an Accessible, Multi-Sensory Feedback System for Performance Evaluation
Ellen Richardson and Michael J. Flexer describe an evaluation approach to performance, drawing on audience response, that combines words, sounds, and movement.
Squeeze Box: Disability-Activist Performance and Creative Evaluation
Ellen Richardson, Michael J Flexer, Hugh Malyon and Jennifer Noice discuss new ways of evaluating artistic interventions to provide clear evidence of the importance of arts-based community engagement
Tackling Racism with Positive Thinking: Psychology and Racism in 1960s America
Ian Miller discusses the relationship between self-esteem psychology and 1960s anti-racist activism, probing what insights this history can offer us today.
Black and Brown in Bioethics
Matimba Swana, Kumeri Bandara and Harleen Kaur Johal reflect on postgraduate activism and advocacy in UK bioethics
Oral Histories of Mental Healthcare
Verusca Calabria explores oral history as a vital method to research histories of mental healthcare. In recent decades in the UK, interest in oral history as a research method has expanded, both as a
Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability
Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is
The Radical Healing Possibilities of Witchcare
The Witch Institute convened witches, activists, artists, filmmakers, curators, historians, scholars, feminists, healers, and more to explore the radical possibilities and dangers under Western capitalist colonialism of witchy ways of knowing, being, caring, and healing.
How Can I Show Up When Everything’s Breaking Down? Transformative Justice and Kazu Haga’s Healing Resistance
sarah madoka currie reflects on what Kazu Haga’s new book Healing Resistance has to say about healing, about restorative justice, and about the relationship between activism and academia in medical humanities contexts.
Blood Donation Policy, Activism and the Un/‘Official’ HIV/AIDS Record
Benjamin Weil explores the history of blood donor activism in the UK.