If You Go Down to the Woods Today…
Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
You and me, I and I: the queerness of intergenerational storytelling
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
The Queer Pleasures and Pains of Autotheory
Harriet Mossop examines pleasure and pain as potential entryways into queer auto-theory in this reflection on ‘Locating the “I”: autoethnography as queer methodology’, a workshop led by João Florêncio and Edyta Just at the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School.
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’.
Practice Research and Pregnancy: ‘Embryology Lessons’
Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.
Heartbreak
In this creative essay, James Borton explores the lived experience of heart bypass surgery and recovery.
The Song of the Whole Wide World: Book Review
Georgia Poplett reviews The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry by Tamarin Norwood (Indigo, 2024).
‘We are All One’, and Other Proverbs of Spiritual Bypassing
In the first entry of the Critical Mental Health and Orientalism series, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi examines the apolitical tendencies of Western healing spaces, and how these tendencies can prevent more radical and necessary forms of healing, resistance, and reformation.