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.
Seeing Differently: Colour Blindness, Cinema, and the Politics of Perception
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
Cultivating Queer Voices for Dis-Alienation
Ellc looks at how a series of vocal workshops at QUEERCIRCLE allowed queer folk to more fully embody their voices.
(Mis)Fitting Together: Reflecting on the Queer Methodologies PhD School
Filipa Teixeira considers the notion of (mis)fitting within higher education and reflects on what is needed to craft spaces where diverse groups of researchers can “fit together well” while creating productive and lasting connections.
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.
In Plain Sight?: Invisible Disabilities and Bindweed Entanglements
Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? Commissioned by the SMS Belonging Project at the University of Manchester, the graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion.
Being a masking crip killjoy
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks. Introduction In response to Phillips and Soorenian’s recent contribution to the Polyphony, we wish to
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.
Developing an Accessible, Multi-Sensory Feedback System for Performance Evaluation
Ellen Richardson and Michael J. Flexer describe an evaluation approach to performance, drawing on audience response, that combines words, sounds, and movement.