Necessary Independence: Ableism in Natural Disaster Discourse
Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.
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.
Crip Time and the Recovery Paradigm: Clashes Between Institutional and Lived Temporality
Employing Alison Kafer’s concept of ‘crip time’ as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
Rethinking Crip Time and Embodiment in Research
Louise Atkinson, Jamie Hale, and Kirsty Liddiard introduce their new co-produced project ‘Cripping Breath’, which centres and explores Crip perspectives on respiration.
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.
‘Chiasmic time’: Being-in-time in Time Being
In the fourth post of our Waiting Times series, Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser reflect on Ruairí Corr and Deborah Robinson’s short film: Time Being. Time Being – a film commissioned by Waiting Times
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.
“Living Through the Crip Conundrum”: Differing Bodyminds Event Review, Part 2
Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze review the presentations from their groundbreaking ‘Differing Bodyminds’ symposium and doctoral school, which sought to establish the position of crip theory in the Low Countries.
Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries
Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders.