‘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’.
Whose Body is it Anyway? Epistemic Injustices in Healthcare
Leo Gunn explores epistemic injustice, “a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower” in chronic illness.
Refractions of a Relapse Through Ekphrasis
Arlene Jackson reflects on a photomontage created by the artist Ashley Cook, in light of her chronic illness relapse.
Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’
Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.
Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review
Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing.
‘Creative Adaptation is our New Task’: Art and Chronic Illness
Artists Alec Finlay, Katie MacLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh reflect on art as witness to erased realities (part two of two).
The Book of Illness
Artist-poet Alec Finlay and artist-writer Louise Kenward consider the generative and activist roles of witness and patient-led medicine, in reference to Moving Mountains, Kenward’s anthology of poetry, prose, essays and artwork exploring nature through a disabled perspective.
MedHums 101: What is Crip Time?
‘Crip time’ is a conception of living with illness that many patients bring to their healthcare interactions, says Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril.
Frequent Attenders: care and repetition in general practice
In the third post of our Waiting Times takeover series, Stephanie Davies and Martin Moore invite us to consider the figure of the ‘frequent attender’. In the face of repetition and chronicity, can care