Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss
Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief.
Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain
In this highly personal piece Deepsikha Dasgupta recounts the intersection between lunar phases and the arthritic pain experienced by women in her family.
The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered
‘Caught red handed’: Guilty Contagion in the 21st century
Teresa Ingleby explores the intersections of pathology and personhood in the 21st century, discussing neoliberal constructions of health, agency, and identity in self-accounts of sickness. Historically, sickness and morality have been causally entwined. Predating
Writing my way out: A Poetics of Illness and Disability
Reflecting on their pandemic life living in communal halls as a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Cat Chong considers their practices involved in continually negotiating a chronic illness within the context of Singapore’s circuit breaker measures.
‘Revenge of the Real’: A Review
Des Fitzgerald reviews Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton (Verso, 2022). Since mid-2020, a small library’s worth of books on the Covid pandemic has appeared. We have had
Chronicity: Future in the Past (Part II)
Alex Henry, working on a crip and feminist disability studies analysis of undiagnosed chronic illness in 21st Century British women’s writing, explores the pandemic’s impact on his work.
Behind the Mask: Making COVID-19 Comics
Creators Shea and Tommy O’Neil discuss the making of ‘The Maskers’ COVID-19 comic series and their vision for a safer community My 10-year-old son and I created ‘The Maskers’ comic series to help identify
Prone: Redeployment to Intensive Care during COVID-19
What was it like to work as a doctor redeployed to intensive care in one of London’s busiest hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Long COVID Patient Narratives: Part 2
In the second part of this two-part essay, Professor Phyllis Weliver considers the importance of long haulers’ voices for therapeutic expression, reframing social experience, and providing data for treatment. Read part 1 here. Narratives