When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause
Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.
Beyond Words: Creating Queer Knowledge Through Arts-Based Methods
Sanjana Kumar uses her experience of the 2025 Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School as a lens through which to re-examine her own research practices as a psychodrama therapist and arts-based researcher in Kerala, India.
Abolitionist Futures for the Queer Medical Humanities
Lola Dickinson interrogates her role as a historian within the medical humanities, questioning the functions of power, positionality, and perspective in her work.
Cultivating Queer Voices for Dis-Alienation
Ellc looks at how a series of vocal workshops at QUEERCIRCLE allowed queer folk to more fully embody their voices.
Can an Institution be Malleable?
Phoebe Eustance explores how institutions like QUEERCIRCLE can embrace ‘malleability’ as a radical practice.
(Mis)Fitting Together: Reflecting on the Queer Methodologies PhD School
Filipa Teixeira considers the notion of (mis)fitting within higher education and reflects on what is needed to craft spaces where diverse groups of researchers can “fit together well” while creating productive and lasting connections.
This Page Bleeds Too: Zines, Infertility, and the Queer Art of Refusal
Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for “queering” knowledge production in health research.
Crafting Zines and Clinics: Fieldnotes on Queer Healthcare in India
Sharanraj Krishnan discusses how his engagement with the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School prompted him to ‘re-enter’ the ‘field’ and reexamine the positionality of the “I” within his research.
Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII
Eden Rea-Hedrick brings artist and prisoner of war Charles Thrale into the realm of queer medical humanities by asking what his wartime work can reveal about midcentury concerns around gender and disability.