Time of Mattering: Disidentification and Care in Small Rain
Marie Cuvelier explores how the temporal logics of hospitalisation are subtly resisted in Gareth Greenwell’s 2025 novel Small Rain.
Can an Institution be Malleable?
Phoebe Eustance explores how institutions like QUEERCIRCLE can embrace ‘malleability’ as a radical practice.
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.
From Non-Place to Site of Care: ESOL Meets the Medical Humanities
Grace Cooke, Lorenzo Meira-Gobel and Rory Hankins ask: what might it mean to approach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching through the lens of the medical humanities?
Zine for Children Who Have Had to Become Caretakers
Artist Priyanka Paul unsettles care work as they illustratively and poetically reckon with the reality of children caretaking for their chronically ill parents.
Invisible Barriers for Women: Mental Health and Neurodivergence
Iris A. Croft uses poetry to untangle the relationship between neurodivergence, being articulate, and receiving care.
Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment Book Review
Jürgen Pieters reviews Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion, 2024).
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
Queer Creative Health: Zine Review
Zeena Feldman reviews Queer Creative Health, a zine series by Meg-John Barker produced for and with London-based LGBTQ+ charity Queercircle.
Narrating digital economies of deservingness
In Part 6 of the Hospital Chary takeover, Nora Kenworthy shares two poems from her recently published book Crowded Out (2024), where health care crowdfunding campaign narratives become evocative choruses