Disabled by Design: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Anindita Charles Xavier explores the representation of disability, state control, and body politics in Ishiguro’s novel.
Transforming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Through Disability
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters’ upcoming ‘Online Town Hall Circus’ event which will take place on the 19th of September.
Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII
Eden Rea-Hedrick brings artist and prisoner of war Charles Thrale into the realm of queer medical humanities by asking what his wartime work can reveal about midcentury concerns around gender and disability.
To Wear or Not to Wear: Face Masks in Disability Focused Events
Sophie Phillips and Armineh Soorenian outline some of the access difficulties wearing face masks can pose for Disabled people, and how to account for conflicting impairments.
Analysing the Intimate: Learning Disabilities, Sibling-hood and Humour
Tom Ryan explores the role of humour in sibling-hood and how it challenges the ‘joy deficit’ idea in learning disability studies 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.
Interrogating Medical Aid in Dying Rhetorics
Analysis of testimony at Medical Aid in Dying hearings challenges the ableist normalisation of authorised disposability of certain members of the population, says Christa Teston.
Multilingual Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: Conference Review
Mona Baie reports from the conference ‘Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: British and Continental Perspectives’ (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).
Disability and depathologisation are not metaphors
Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry. I had the pleasure, this week, to attend