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.
Breathing Together: Multispecies Care in Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes
Anuj Kumar brings together ecological vulnerability, multispecies care, and relational health in his reading of Shaunak Sen’s film All That Breathes.
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.
“What would you like to remember?” Reflecting on Co-Constructed Memory and Identity in The Eternal Memory
Michelle Sok I HE considers how Maite Alberdi’s film The Eternal Memory challenges dominant cultural representations of dementia and terminal illness.
Can an Institution be Malleable?
Phoebe Eustance explores how institutions like QUEERCIRCLE can embrace ‘malleability’ as a radical practice.
Gender & Genre- Medical Humanities and the Moving Image: Conference Review
Arya Ray reflects on attending the one-day conference Gender & Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image, held at Durham University in September 2024.
Screening the abject: Self-harming girls in cinema
Nina Fellows explores shifting portrayals of self-harm in Anglophone films and the clinical implications of such representation.
What Do Films Say About Autism?
Gulsabah Palinko explores representations of autism in seven recent films, considering their impact on public perceptions.
Posthumanism in the Medical Humanities
Anna McFarlane examines the impact a posthumanistic approach can have within critical medical humanities research
Minor practices of recovery: the social life of creative methods
Nicole Vitellone, Lena Theodoropoulou and Melanie Manchot reflect on developing an interdisciplinary method for the study of drug and alcohol recovery